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Spanish Flu 1918 (lemmy.world)
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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

FYI the Spanish Flu's origin was a pig farm in Kansas.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Spanish: WTF!?

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 33 points 2 years ago

The only reason it was called the Spanish Flu was because they were trying to report accurate numbers when the rest of the world was lying for the war effort

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do we know that?