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> Spanish flu of 1918

It was not Spanish. It's origins come from the battlefields of WWI.



Everyone knows it as the Spanish flu.. it's called like that because the Spanish newspapers didn't censor these deaths like the other countries that were busy with World War I


Next you're probably going to tell me about French fries, right?


Freedom Fries


Hawaiian pizza does not come from Hawaii, and yet that is still its proper name (in English, at least.)




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