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50 Things You’re Not Supposed To Know

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Introduction
01 The Ten Commandments We AlwaysSee Aren’t the Ten Commandments
02 One of the Popes Wrote an Erotic Book
03 The CIA Commits Over 100,000 Serious Crimes Each Year
04 The First CIA Agent to Die in the Line of Duty Was Douglas Mackiernan
05 After 9/11, the Defense Department Wanted to Poison Afghanistan’s Food Supply
06 The US Government Lies About the Number of Terrorism Convictions It Obtains
07 The US Is Planning to Provoke Terrorist Attacks
08 The US and Soviet Union Considered Detonating Nuclear Bombs on the Moon
09 Two Atomic Bombs Were Dropped on North Carolina
10 World War III Almost Started in 1995

11 The Korean War Never Ended
12 Agent Orange Was Used in Korea
13 Kent State Wasn’t the Only ? or Even the First ? Massacre of College Students During the
Vietnam Era
14 Winston Churchill Believed ina Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy
15 The Auschwitz Tattoo Was Originally an IBM Code Number
16 Adolph Hitler’s Blood Relatives Are Alive and Well in New York State
17 Around One Quarter of “Witches” Were Men
18 The Virginia Colonists Practiced Cannibalism
19 Many of the Pioneering Feminists Opposed Abortion
20 Black People Served in the Confederate Army

21 Electric Cars Have Been Around Since the 1880s
22 Juries Are Allowed to Judge the Law, Not Just the Facts
23 The Police Aren’t Legally Obligated to Protect You
24 The Government Can Take Your House andLand, Then Sell Them to Private Corporations
25 The Supreme Court Has Ruled That You’reAllowed to Ingest Any Drug, Especially If You’re an Addict
26 The Age of Consent in Most of the US Is Not Eighteen
27 Most Scientists Don’t Read All of the Articles They Cite
28 Louis Pasteur Suppressed Experiments That Didn’t Support His Theories
29 The Creator of the GAIA Hypothesis Supports Nuclear Power
30 Genetically-Engineered Humans Have Already Been Born

31 The Insurance Industry Wants to Genetically Test All Policy Holders
32 Smoking Causes Problems Other Than Lung Cancer and Heart Disease
33 Herds of Milk-Producing Cows Are Rife With Bovine Leukemia Virus
34 Most Doctors Don’t Know the Radiation Level of CAT Scans
35 Medication Errors Kill Thousands Each Year
36 Prescription Drugs Kill Over 100,000 Annually
37 Work Kills More People Than War
38 The Suicide Rate IsHighest Among the Elderly
39 For Low-Risk People, a Positive Result from an HIV Test Is Wrong Half the Time
40 DNA Matching Is Not Infallible

41 An FBI Expert Testified That Lie Detectors Are Worthless for Security Screening
42 The Bayer Company Made Heroin
43 LSD Has Been Used Successfully in Psychiatric Therapy
44 Carl Sagan Was an Avid Pot-Smoker
45 One of the Heroes of Black Hawk Down Is a Convicted Child Molester
46 The Auto Industry Says That SUV Drivers Are Selfish and Insecure
47 The Word “Squaw” Is Not a Derisive Term for the Vagina
48 You Can Mail Letters for Little or No Cost
49 Advertisers’ Influence onthe News Media Is Widespread
50 The World’s Museums Contain Innumerable Fakes

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Comments

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1 MHA December 9, 2007 at 11:48

Miniature text in a teensy Flash rectangle in a small corner of my browser window doesn’t lend itself to actually reading this post. Please consider reposting as actual text in an actual blog post! Thanks. :-)

2 adobe_sucks December 9, 2007 at 13:42

you can see the document a lot better if you just access the file direct:

http://static.scribd.com/docs/kijsscgrkxk1s.swf

but really, why accommodate another medicore product offering from macromedia|adobe?

3 Sergio December 9, 2007 at 18:14

Bahhh,,, I read through the document without believing a single word, the document is written in such a tense that it makes it hard to believe. I don’t know about the references but I think about half of the things here are mere lies.

Waste of time

4 sigh December 9, 2007 at 21:03

Waste of time

- hard to read
- no references
- editorializing without saying so

and,

- not having the document in some conventional format makes it hard to read and I’m not going to waste any more time trying to deal with it.

That scribd.com things is interesting, but too hard to use and generally worthless.

Please delete the posting and move on with your great blog.

Keep up the great work.

5 Cameron December 10, 2007 at 12:23

So why is this in a flash player?

6 James December 10, 2007 at 13:53

please get rid of the flash player…what’s the point?

7 Ben December 10, 2007 at 15:28

I feel dumber for having read a paragraph of some of this. Please delete.

8 Murali December 11, 2007 at 09:09

Able to read because of the link provided by adobe_sucks. Written with the main intention of offending the reader.

9 Porthos December 14, 2007 at 16:56

I think it’s funny that you left the first page added in by the release group, instead of deleting it. Though I suppose many would have no clue that this is a sign that it’s pirated =) Not that I honestly care, I just thought that was funny.

10 Stephanie August 27, 2008 at 11:30

I dont even see anything.

11 personal021 September 2, 2008 at 14:03

wow :-)
its very reasonable article.
Nice post.
realy good post

thx :-)

12 cody August 16, 2009 at 01:03

18 year old virgin looking for fun not spam!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeI5Ka8BQbM

13 cody August 16, 2009 at 01:04
14 bellend September 22, 2009 at 16:49

religion LOL

15 Eppically May 6, 2011 at 02:52

I love this, but I hope the website can improve, in terms of speed on loading and certain names, things and or places be highlihted to re-direct to references, or more information.
Thank you.

-Eppy2000Heaven