Not sure how true these are, just use it for a laugh and don’t quote me 
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
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2 - No doubt it was about little boys, although the priest Andrew Greeley’s erotic book was not.
3 - That’s only news to the uninformed. Read Philip Agee’s “CIA Diary”.
5 - What do you mean “wanted to”? Read up on the birth defects and cancer linked to the use of depleted uranium on US soldiers - then think how many more Afghans have been affected.
7 - For example, illegal crossborder raids into Bolivia, Venezuela, Iran and Pakistan.
10 - Don’t you mean 1984 when Dummy Reagan said “We have outlawed russian and begin bombing in five minutes”?
15 - That’s not surprising since IBM did business with the Nazis (as did Senator Prescott Bush, George Putz’s grandfather).
18 - So did the Crusaders who saw Moors as less than human.
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23 - Sure. Just ask the dead people who weren’t protected by restraining orders.
24 - “Eminent domain”, invented by the same idiots who invented “manifest destiny” and “US interests”.
41 - They’re not lie detectors, they’re panic detectors. Innocent people panic easily when falsely accused, career criminals don’t.
45 - The character played by Ewan McGregor in the movie is fictional. The real soldier raped his daughter after coming home. Some speculate it was due to experimental drugs used on soldiers. Ever heard how many murders and suicides have been linked to mefloquine (aka Larium)?
Use this for a laugh? Are you a homicidal maniac? Not sure if these are true? Just sit back and laugh at these atrocities and irrelevant factoids? This is another utterly useless post.
Here’s the background for those 50 items…
http://50thingstonotknow.blogspot.com/2006/12/police-arent-legally-obligated-to.html
Not my site, just found it googling the text of one of the items. Looks like a reprint of the book.
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