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Have you heard about…?
The porn collection in the Library of Congress.
The US companies that are allowed to make LSD, cocaine, and heroin.
Six rock bands that are the subject of FBI files.
Guns the size of a credit card, or knives made out of glass.
Pentagon investigations officially named Operation Bad Gas, Project: X-Files,
and Operation Treasure Trolls.
The erotic books by NPR's Andrei Codrescu, philosopher Denis Diderot,
sci-fi master Philip José Farmer, and Lynne Cheney, wife of the
Vice President.
Ammonia, apple juice, carbon dioxide, chocolate, rum, vinegar, and other
ingredients added to cigarettes.
Music made by plants, elephants, or DNA, or songs performed underwater
or on toy instruments.
Doctors who purposely injected children with sexually-transmitted diseases
in the 1800s.
In this book of surprising, subversive, and suppressed facts, Russ Kick
(50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know, You Are Being Lied To) crams maximum
info into minimum space with lists like:
39 Famous People Who Used Drugs, including Nobel Prize-winners, classic
writers, famous physicians, and Cary Grant (!)
13 Innocent People Who Went to Prison
The CIA's 25 Tips for Interrogating a Prisoner
17 Questions You'll be Asked When Applying to Become an FBI Agent
13 Nuclear Tests That Spread Radiation into Civilian Areas
9 Visitors Who Died at Disneyland
55 Corporations Reportedly Doing Business With Enemy Nations
12 Strange Drugs, like carbogen, arsenic, and salamander brandy
36 Botched Executions
63 Gay Animals
4 Unreleased Raunchy Songs
18 Biblical Atrocities
16 Movies Banned in the US
12 Things to do With Your Body After You're Dead
44 Substances That Soup up Your Brain
32 Famous People in Threesomes, including Lord Byron, Lenin, John Stuart
Mill, Mary Shelley, and Picasso
On top of that, your brain will be bombarded with facts about CIA cryptonyms,
Guantanamo Bay, wild sex practices, famous Satanists, pulp novels, suppressed
medical treatments, suicide notes, edible flowers, and the illegal substances
that occur naturally in our bodies.
Includes lists from Paul Krassner, Snopes.com, Richard Metzger, and others.
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