CONTENTS

Introduction

01 The Ten Commandments We Always See 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 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

51 Men Have Clitorises

52 Out of Every 100 People, Ten Weren't Fathered by the Man They Believe Is Dad

53 Hardcore Sexual Imagery Is as Old as the Human Race

54 Shakespeare's Works Are Loaded With Sexual Jokes and Terms

55 Barbie Is Based on a German Sex Doll

56 Fetuses Masturbate

57 Some Legal, Readily Available Substances Can Get Users High

58 A DEA Judge Ruled That Pot Is Medically Beneficial

59 Each Month, New Warnings Are Added to the Labels of 40 Drugs

60 SUVs Are Over 3 Times More Likely Than Cars to Kill Pedestrians Who Are Struck

61 Aristotle Set Back Science For Around 2,000 Years

62 Native Americans Were Kept as Slaves

63 George Washington Embezzled Government Funds

64 The Declaration of Independence Contains a Racially Derogatory Remark

65 James Audubon Killed All the Birds He Painted

66 One-Quarter of Lynching Victims Were Not Black

67 Freud Failed to Help His Patients

68 The Board Game Monopoly Was Swiped From Quakers

69 Gandhi Refused to Let His Dying Wife Take Penicillin Yet Took Quinine to Save Himself

70 Several Thousand Americans Were Held in Nazi Concentration Camps

71 The US Has Almost Nuked Canada, Britain, Spain, Greenland, and Texas

72 During the Cold War, the Code to Unlock Nuclear Missiles Was “00000000”

73 The Government Practically Gives Away Valuable Land to Corporate Interests

74 Most Corporations Pay No Federal Income Tax

75 The Military Used to Put Slanderous Secret Codes on Discharge Papers

76 One in Three American Homeless Men Is a Military Veteran

77 The US Imprisons More of Its Population Than Any Other Country

78 The Government Can Take Your Property Without Even Charging You With a Crime

79 The EPA Lied About New York's Air Quality After 9/11

80 Condoleezza Rice Committed Perjury Before the 9/11 Commission

81 Al Qaeda Attacks Have Increased Substantially Since 9/11

82 The Patriot Act Is Used in Cases That Have Nothing to Do With Terrorism

83 The Government Offered Around 30 Reasons for the Iraq Invasion

84 A Leading Pentagon Hawk Admitted the Iraq Invasion Was Illegal

85 The US Runs a Network of at Least 20 Secret Prisons

86 The Government Has a Database of Every Child Porn Image Ever Made

87 Presidential Debates Are Strictly Controlled by the Two Major Political Parties

88 For Over 100 Years, Almost Every Discharge of Waste Into US Waters Has Been Illegal

89 The Water Supply Is Filled With Small Amounts of Pharmaceuticals and Other Chemicals

90 Well Over 300,000 Tons of Chemical Weapons Have Been Dumped into the Sea

91 Cigarette Butts Are the Most Common Type of Litter

92 Caviar Involves Extraordinary Cruelty

93 The Hippocratic Oath Has Been Changed Dramatically

94 Most Hysterectomies Are Unnecessary

95 Using Sunscreen Can Cause Cancer

96 Involuntary Human Experimentation Is Not a Thing of the Past

97 Head Transplants on Monkeys Have Already Been Performed

98 Scientists Are Recreating the 1918 Spanish Flu Virus

99 The Vatican, Including the Pope, Is Directly Involved in the Catholic Church's Pedophile Cover-up

100 God's Name Is “Jealous”

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