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Spanish Flu 1918 (lemmy.world)
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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Spanish: WTF!?

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 33 points 8 months 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 8 months ago (1 children)

How do we know that?