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TIL: The seasonal flu H1N1 that travels the world is now thought to be an attenuated strain of the original H1N1 Spanish Flu virus that caused the 2nd most deadly pandemic killing millions after WWI. The earlier hypothesis was that it contained genes from both the Spanish Flu and a seasonal virus.

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