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> Spanish flu of 1918
It was not Spanish. It's origins come from the battlefields of WWI.
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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
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Next you're probably going to tell me about French fries, right?
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Hawaiian pizza does not come from Hawaii, and yet that is still its proper name (in English, at least.)
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It was not Spanish. It's origins come from the battlefields of WWI.