The Most Important Events That Changed History Forever

Spanish Flu (1918)

The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic lasted until 1920 and infected 500 million people—roughly a third of the world's population at the time—in four different waves. The death toll is estimated somewhere between 17 and 100 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. 

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The More You Know

  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
  • May 22nd is the least common birth date.
  • Humans are the only animals with chins.
  • War pigs were used in ancient warfare to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
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