The Pandemic Started 5 Years Ago — Here Are 36 Things That Happened Back Then That Will Make You Question Reality

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Well, well, well, it's been FIVE years since 2020 and a definite p*ndemic began.

Because the pandemic dramatically altered everyone's cognition of clip and place, let's look backmost astatine immoderate genuinely astonishing events that occurred close earlier our lives rather virtually changed forever...

1.Five years ago, conscionable weeks earlier the pandemic began, Charlotte Awbery went viral connected the subway for singing "Shallow."

Charlotte Awbery successful the subway earlier she went viral

Little did we cognize we'd each beryllium hunkered down doing dalgona java challenges weeks later.

2.Five years ago, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez were the associated headliners astatine the Super Bowl.

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3.The Chiefs won the game.

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4.And Travis Kelce was with Kayla Nicole.

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5.Tiger King had conscionable premiered.

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6.The archetypal play of Love Is Blind was everywhere.

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7.And the biggest movies successful theaters were The Invisible Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Bad Boys for Life.

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8.Five years ago, astatine the opening of 2020, "Dance Monkey" by Tones and I, "Someone You Loved" by Lewis Capaldi, and "Good arsenic Hell" by Lizzo were the biggest songs.

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9.Lil Nas X won large for "Old Town Road" astatine the Grammys.

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10.Billie Eilish was the astir awarded creator of the night.

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11.And Lana Del Rey wore a formal from Dillards and brought her bull fellow arsenic her date.

Couple kissing connected the reddish carpet; antheral successful a achromatic suit, pistillate successful a glittering, beaded dress

12.Five years ago, astatine the opening of 2020, Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green were inactive together.

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13.Jennifer Lopez was inactive with A-Rod.

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14.Bill Hader and Rachel Bilson had conscionable made their reddish carpet debut.

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15.Channing Tatum and Jessie J had besides made their reddish carpet debut.

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16.And Elon Musk was inactive with Grimes.

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17.Back then, Elon Musk only had six kids. Now helium has 14.

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18.Speaking of radical with a ton of kids. At the opening of 2020, Nick Cannon lone had 3 kids. Now he has 12.

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19.Five years ago, conscionable earlier lockdown, Parasite won large astatine the Academy Awards.

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20.People were inactive making Cats jokes.

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21.People were freaking going bananas implicit Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston reuniting.

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22.Ellen was inactive connected TV.

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23.Modern Family was besides inactive connected TV.

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It ended successful April 2020.

24.Schitt's Creek, too.

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That besides ended successful April 2020.

25.And successful bittersweet celeb breakup news, Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler had conscionable breached up.

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I'm definite helium inactive had his pre-Elvis voice.

26.Five years ago, we were each talking astir Jennifer Lopez being snubbed for a Hustlers Oscar nomination.

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27.These SEVEN radical were moving for the Democratic nomination.

Politicians connected signifier astatine a 2020 debate, waving and smiling nether agleam lights with CBS News logos displayed prominently

That's Michael Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, and Tom Steyer.

28.In February, Pete Buttigieg had conscionable won the authorities of Iowa successful the primaries.

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29.And past Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire and Nevada.

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30.And successful the State of the Union, Nancy Pelosi tore up a transcript of Trump's speech.

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31.Five years ago, astatine the extremity of January 2020, Brexit authoritative happened.

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32.In different exits, Megxit was announced astir that time, too.

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33.And Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate connected some articles of impeachment.

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34.Five years ago, "social distancing," "superspreader," "flattening the curve," "N95s," "PPE," "variants," and "quarantines" weren't successful immoderate of our vocabularies.