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Alternative stories of the origin of the famous fry:

1. First sold in France, by street vendors on Paris’s Pont Neuf in 1780.
2. Invented by the Spanish, as Spaniards were the first Europeans to encounter the famous South American Potato, and were famous for frying food in oil.

The so-called Spanish flu did not originate in Spain. The geographic origin of the flu is debated to this day, though hypotheses have suggested East Asia, Europe, and even Kansas.
The influenza pandemic from 1918 got this name most likely because of the WWI context: The major countries inv...

• Melancholic depression, as described by Hippocrates, was considered a unique condition that struck people out of the blue.
• It is now known as "endogenous depression" (coming from within) and different from depression in response to external stressors.
• In 1980, depressive ...