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b'GamerDude loves trivia, history, and little known facts about nothing, and has collected them for years. In this episode, he shares some of the information he\'s learned over the years revolving around "facts" we were once told that turned out to be anything but factual. He talks about the Sixteenth Amendment to the constituion, which relates to the income tax, and wonders whether it was ever actually, formally passed.\\xa0 He talks about how big pharmaceutical companies used to market morphine, and then heroin, as miracle drugs, before it turned out they weren\'t. He talks about how smoking was marketed by actors and athletes, and promoted by doctors, and even touted as a diet aid, before the federal government finally issued its health warning in 1964. He shares the tale of Pope Gregory IX\'s hatred of cats, and how that hatred could have helped lay the groundwork for the spread of The Black Death (the bubonic plague) back in the 1300s.\\xa0 To lighten things up, he shares some trivia about Oxford University, Nintendo, Queen Elizabeth II, and Betty White.'