'The Simpsons' predicted a pandemic and killer insects back in 1993

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(CNN)"The Simpsons" have continued their streak of being our pop culture Nostradamus. Fox's long-running animated series — actually the longest running in history — has an episode from 1993 which appears to foreshadow 2020 with the pandemic and "murder hornets." Titled "Marge in Chains" the season 4 episode features a sick Asian worker sneezing on a shipment of juicers that many of the residents of Springfield wish to purchase, which kicks off an "Osaka Flu" outbreak. As people panic they knock over a truck they think has the cure, but instead demolish a crate marked "Killer Bees" which then swarm. Earlier this week, scientists said they...

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