50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know

From the book "50 things your not supposed to know"(its cheesy i 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

I think the number 37 "Work Kills More People than War" is one of the Hot chapters of the book.

The following is from a blog that quoted that part of the book.

Well,jobs are Necessary for living(smilie) and they are done by all people,ages,status but still the numbers are quite surprising.

If you want the book download it from a torrent site.
I already have a link for the torrent site Btjunkie
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Can't speak for anybody else but I'd have NO interest in reading any more of that tripe. Half (or more) of the things on that list are clearly stupid and unsupported by any facts.

 

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Read the other half(or less)

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9.BS.
12.Vietnam not Korea (Maybe I am wrong, but I know for sure it was used in Vietnam).
20.Being a Civil War reenactor, I knew that.
41.Yeah they only pick up heart rates.
49.That's been going on for years.

 

No.

A polygraph test measures physiological responses other than simply heart rate. Tests can include measurements of heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, galvanic skin response and muscle activity.

 

Doesn't sound clearly stupid to me.

 

this one seems correct.

 

This seems quite possible

http://www.injuryboard.com/national-news/prescription-drug-deaths-soar.aspx?googleid=29488

 

this is correct.

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Pope Pius 2 wrote erotic poems and an erotic play.

 

This appears to be true

http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-10-08/news/the-ibm-link-to-auschwitz/1

 

This appears to be true...

 

This is nicely documented here...

http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Winter07/jamestown.cfm

 

This seemed like a no brainer, especially with the vague 'problems' which could even include social and financial effects. But I found an interesting medical problem I did not know about here.....

http://www.mdsupport.org/library/nosmoke.html

That smoking can lead to blindness.

 

Looking it over, it appears most of them are either true, or plausible, but I'm not fact checking that whole list.

Number 9 checks out:

http://www.ibiblio.org/bomb/

 

This is backed up....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1382115/Getting-to-know-the-Hitlers.html

 

and this...

 

So far the list is doing quite well, I would say.

Some of them would be hard to check. I mean how do we check how many laws the CIA breaks.

But can anyone find one that is patently not true?