12 "Now You Know" Facts That Have No Business Being True
Expect some pushback from your brain on these.
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Some facts are so illogical, your brain will refuse to accept they're true. I'm not talking fanciful conspiracy theories that take 100 hours of YouTube videos to consume and internalize. These are simple, provable facts about your body, your world, and the creatures you share it with, that your brain may never believe:
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![The U.S. government was paying a Civil War pension until 2020. The recipient's father was an 84-year-old Union soldier when she was born. NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/3/7/744137.jpg?v=1)
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![Nintendo is over 130 years old. ON M*X101 PLTINGCARDS MARK TRADE THE NNIENDO PLANG CARD 0 SHOMENDORI OHASHI. KYOTO, JAPAN, They've sold playing cards,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/3/0/744130.jpg?v=1)
![An early treatment for syphilis was malaria. The guy who came up malarial blood transfusions won the Nobel Prize. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/2/9/744129.jpg?v=1)