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50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know - Volume 2 »

Authors: Russ Kick
ISBN-13: 9781932857023, ISBN-10: 1932857028
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Disinformation Company, The
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Russ Kick

Russ Kick is the all-star editor of five previous Disinformation Guides and three Disinformation books. He has been labeled as an "information archaeologist" by the New York Times in a major profile. He runs the popular blog TheMemoryHole.org and is well known for his intelligent and successful FOIA requests and unveilings.

Book Synopsis

More stunning revelations to liven up any conversation from Disinformation's Russ Kick

1	Men have clitorises	12
2	Out of every 100 people, ten weren't fathered by the man they believe is dad	14
3	Hardcore sexual imagery is as old as the human race	17
4	Shakespeare's works are loaded with sexual jokes and terms	21
5	Barbie is based on a German sex doll	24
6	Fetuses masturbate	25
7	Some legal, readily available substances can get users high	27
8	A DEA judge ruled that pot is medically beneficial	30
9	Each month, new warnings are added to the labels of 40 drugs	32
10	SUVs are over 3 times more likely than cars to kill pedestrians who are struck	36
11	Aristotle set back science for around 2,000 years	37
12	Native Americans were kept as slaves	39
13	George Washington embezzled government funds	42
14	The Declaration of Independence contains a racially derogatory remark	44
15	James Audubon killed all the birds he painted	45
16	One-quarter of lynching victims were not black	47
17	Freud failed to help his patients	48
18	The board game Monopoly was swiped from Quakers	53
19	Gandhi refused to let his dying wife take penicillin yet took quinine to save himself	55
20	Several thousand Americans were held in Nazi concentration camps	57
21	The US has almost nuked Canada, Britain, Spain, Greenland, and Texas	59
22	During the Cold War, the code to unlock nuclear missiles was "00000000"	61
23	The government practically gives away valuable land to corporate interests	62
24	Most corporations pay no federal income tax	65
25	The military used to put slanderous secret codes on discharge papers	67
26	One in three American homeless men is a military veteran	69
27	The US imprisons more of its population than any other country	70
28	The government can take your property without even charging you with a crime	72
29	The EPA lied about New York's air quality after 9/11	74
30	Condoleezza Rice committed perjury before the 9/11 Commission	77
31	Al Qaeda attacks have increased substantially since 9/11	80
32	The Patriot Act is used in cases that have nothing to do with terrorism	82
33	The government offered around 30 reasons for the Iraq invasion	86
34	A leading Pentagon hawk admitted the Iraq invasion was illegal	93
35	The US runs a network of at least 20 secret prisons	95
36	The government has a database of every child porn image ever made	97
37	Presidential debates are strictly controlled by the two major political parties	100
38	For over 100 years, almost every discharge of waste into US waters has been illegal	102
39	The water supply is filled with small amounts of pharmaceuticals and other chemicals	105
40	Well over 300,000 tons of chemical weapons have been dumped into the sea	107
41	Cigarette butts are the most common type of litter	109
42	Caviar involves extraordinary cruelty	112
43	The Hippocratic Oath has been changed dramatically	114
44	Most hysterectomies are unnecessary	116
45	Using sunscreen can cause cancer	118
46	Involuntary human experimentation is not a thing of the past	120
47	Head transplants on monkeys have already been performed	122
48	Scientists are recreating the 1918 Spanish flu virus	125
49	The Vatican, including the Pope, is directly involved in the Catholic church's pedophile cover-up	129
50	God's name is "jealous"	132