50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know

Volume 2

By: Russ Kick (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 November 2004

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Ever feel like you’re being kept in the dark? Do you feel like the facts and history you rely on might not be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but?

Just in time for 2004’s Christmas parties and other holiday get-togethers, Russ Kick delivers a second round of stunning information, forgotten facts and hidden history. The first volume was the gift to give and get for the holiday season of 2003; surprising, shocking and controversial, the “things” in Volume 2 will make 2004’s holiday parties sizzle with debate over Kick’s revelations—all thoroughly researched and documented.

Sized for quick reference, filled with facts, illustrations, and graphic evidence of lies and misrepresentations, 50 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know—Volume 2 presents the vital, often omitted details on human health hazards, government lies, and secret history and warfare excised from your schoolbooks and nightly news reports.

Russ Kick and The Disinformation Company have published five successful books together since 2001. Each one has become a bestseller, establishing Russ as the leader in gathering and disseminating the hidden history, forgotten facts, secret stories and covert cover-ups that “they” don’t want you to know!

Russ Kick is the editor of Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies; Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies; and You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths. He is the author of 50 Things You’re Not Supposed To Know and The Disinformation Book of Lists.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture History Regional & National History History of the Americas Ethical Issues & Debates Ethical Issues of Censorship Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge Mind, Body, Spirit

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