50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know

• 1 The Ten Commandments We Always See Aren't the Ten Commandments
• 2 One of the Popes Wrote an Erotic Book
• 3 The CIA Commits Over 100,000 Serious Crimes Each Year
• 4 The First CIA Agent to Die in the Line of Duty Was Douglas Mackiernan
• 5 After 9/11, the Defense Department Wanted to Poison Afghanistan's Food Supply
• 6 The US Government Lies About the Number of Terrorism Convictions It Obtains
• 7 The US Is Planning to Provoke Terrorist Attacks
• 8 The US and Soviet Union Considered Detonating Nuclear Bombs on the Moon
• 9 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 in a 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 and Land, Then Sell Them to Private Corporations
• 25 The Supreme Court Has Ruled That You're Allowed 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 Is Highest 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 on the News Media Is Widespread
• 50 The World's Museums Contain Innumerable Fakes