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      For the past 11 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has been raging throughout the world. This pandemic has led to the world going on lockdown and wearing masks(mostly). One hundred and two years ago, there was a similar pandemic that killed over 50 million people, but it was mostly forgotten in history until its centenary, and when COVID-19 began spreading around the world. During the pandemic's 100th anniversary, the Wikipedia page for the pandemic set a record for getting 144,000 views in a month. In March 2020, the Wikipedia page broke its previous record with 8.2 million views. This pandemic was the 1918 flu or influenza pandemic, but it was more commonly known as the Spanish flu because of a misconception on where the virus originated. Empty streets in Wuhan           The 1918 influenza's origin is still debated to this day, but one thing is certain. The virus that caused the pandemic did not originate from Spain, as many people th...