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

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

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

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

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