This may be hard to believe, but it's true!

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It's an amazing fact: the US gov't is still paying benefits from the Civil War.

 

The US Civil War!

 

The payments are still going to children of Civil War vets, one in TN, one in NC. They get about $900/month. They would have been born when their fathers were in their 70s or even 80s...unusual but impossible.