Hi guys i have an Ebook with the topic " 50 things you are not supposed to know "
Here is it's contents:
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
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What were you doing on January 25, 1995? Whatever it was, it was almost the last thing you ever did. On that day, the world came within minutes of a nuclear war between the US and Russia.
Norway and the United States had launched a research rocket (for charting the Arctic) from a Norwegian island. Following standard protocol, Norway had alerted Russia in advance about the firing, but the message never made its way to the right people. In the middle of the night, Russian radar detected what looked like a nuclear missile launched toward Moscow from a US submarine.
The military immediately called President Boris Yeltsin, awakening him with the news that the country appeared to be under attack (no word on whether Yeltsin had been in a vodka-induced drunken slumber). The groggy president, for the first time ever, activated the infamous black suitcase that contains the codes for launching nuclear missiles. He had just a few minutes to decide whether to launch any or all of the country's 2,000 hair-trigger nukes at the US.
Luckily for the entire world, while Yeltsin was conferring with his highest advisors, Russia's radar showed that the missile was headed out to sea. The red alert was cancelled. World War III was averted.
What makes this even more nerve-racking is that Russia's early-warning systems are in much worse shape now than they were in '95. The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers explains that while Russia needs 21 satellites to have a complete, fully-redundant network capable of accurately detecting missile launches, as of 1999 they have only three. Heaven help us if some Russian bureaucrat again forgets to tell the command and control center that a nearby country is launching a research rocket.
What were you doing on January 25, 1995? Whatever it was, it was almost the last thing you ever did. On that day, the world came within minutes of a nuclear war between the US and Russia.
Norway and the United States had launched a research rocket (for charting the Arctic) from a Norwegian island. Following standard protocol, Norway had alerted Russia in advance about the firing, but the message never made its way to the right people. In the middle of the night, Russian radar detected what looked like a nuclear missile launched toward Moscow from a US submarine.
The military immediately called President Boris Yeltsin, awakening him with the news that the country appeared to be under attack (no word on whether Yeltsin had been in a vodka-induced drunken slumber). The groggy president, for the first time ever, activated the infamous black suitcase that contains the codes for launching nuclear missiles. He had just a few minutes to decide whether to launch any or all of the country's 2,000 hair-trigger nukes at the US.
Luckily for the entire world, while Yeltsin was conferring with his highest advisors, Russia's radar showed that the missile was headed out to sea. The red alert was cancelled. World War III was averted.
What makes this even more nerve-racking is that Russia's early-warning systems are in much worse shape now than they were in '95. The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers explains that while Russia needs 21 satellites to have a complete, fully-redundant network capable of accurately detecting missile launches, as of 1999 they have only three. Heaven help us if some Russian bureaucrat again forgets to tell the command and control center that a nearby country is launching a research rocket.
I may never receive another piece of mail, but I have to let you in on a secret: It's possible to send letters for free or for well below current postage rates. Information on beating the postal system has been floating around for decades, but it wasn't gathered in one place until outlaw publisher Loompanics put forth How To Screw the Post Office by "Mr. Unzip" in 2000.
Not content to theorize from an ivory tower, Unzip put these methods
through the ultimate real-world test: He mailed letters. He also examined the envelopes in which hundreds upon hundreds of customers had paid their utility bills. Based on this, he offers proof that letters with insufficient postage often make it to their destinations.
The key is that the machines which scan for stamps work incredibly
fast, processing ten letters per second. They're also fairly unsophisticated in their detection methods, relying mainly on stamps' glossy coating as a signal. Because of this, it's possible to successfully use lower-rate stamps, including outdated stamps, postcard stamps, and even 1-cent stamps. Beyond that, Unzip successfully sent letters affixed with only the perforated edges from a block of stamps. Even those pseudostamps sent by charities like Easter Seals or environ-mental groups can fool the scanners.
Another approach is to cut stamps in half, using each portion as full postage. Not only does this give you two stamps for the price of one, but you can often salvage the uncancelled portion of stamps on letters you receive. In fact, the author shows that sometimes the Post Office processes stamps that have already been fully cancelled. This happens more often when the ink is light, but even dark cancellation marks aren't necessarily a deal-breaker.
Then there's the biggie, the Post Office's atomic secret that lets you mail letters for free. Say you're sending a letter to dear old mom. Simply put mom's address as the return address. Then write your address in the center of the envelope, where you'd normally put hers. Forget about the stamp. The letter will be "returned" to her for insufficient postage.
Unzip covers further techniques involving stamp positioning, metered mail, 2-cent stamps, and other tricks. Except perhaps for the reversed address scam, none of these tricks will guarantee your missive gets to its destination, so you wouldn't want to try them with important letters. But if you want to save a few cents once in a while — or more likely, you want to have fun hacking the postal system — it can be done.
15
THE AUSCHWITZ TATTOO WAS ORIGINALLY AN IBM CODE NUMBER
The tattooed numbers on the forearms of people held and killed in Nazi concentration camps have become a chilling symbol of hatred. Victims were stamped with the indelible number in a dehumanizing effort to keep track of them like widgets in the supply chain.
These numbers obviously weren't chosen at random. They were part of a coded system, with each number tracked as the unlucky person who bore it was moved through the system.
Edwin Black made headlines in 2001 when his painstakingly researched book, IBM and the Holocaust, showed that IBM machines were used to automate the "Final Solution" and the jackbooted takeover of Europe. Worse, he showed that the top levels of the company either knew or willfully turned a blind eye.
A year and a half after that book gave Big Blue a black eye, the author made more startling discoveries. IBM equipment was on-site at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Furthermore: Thanks to the new discoveries, researchers can now trace how Hollerith numbers assigned to inmates evolved into the horrific tattooed numbers so symbolic of the Nazi era. (Herman Hollerith was the German American who first automated US census information in the late 19th century and founded the company that became IBM. Hollerith's name became synonymous with the machines and the Nazi "departments" that operated them.)
In one case, records show, a timber merchant from Bendzin, Poland, arrived at Auschwitz in August 1943 and was assigned a characteristic five-digit IBM Hollerith number, 44673. The number was part of a custom punch-card system devised by IBM to track prisoners in all Nazi concentration camps, including the slave labor at Auschwitz. Later in the summer of 1943, the Polish timber merchant's same five-digit Hollerith number, 44673, was tattooed on his forearm. Eventually, during the summer of 1943, all non-Germans at Auschwitz were similarly tattooed.
The Hollerith numbering system was soon scrapped at Auschwitz because so many inmates died. Eventually, the Nazis developed their own haphazard system.
28
LOUIS PASTEUR SUPPRESSED EXPERIMENTS THAT DIDN'T SUPPORT HIS
THEORIES
One of the greatest scientific duels in history occurred between those who believed that microorganisms spontaneously generate in decaying organic matter and those who believed that the tiny creatures migrated there from the open air. From the late 1850s to the late 1870s, the eminent French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur was locked in a death-match with
opponents of spontaneous generation, especially Felix Pouchet.
The two camps performed experiments one after f the other, both to prove their pet theory and to prove the opponent's. As we know, Pasteur won the debate: The fact that microbes travel through the air is now accepted as a given, with s spontaneous generation relegated to the slagheap of quaint, discarded scientific ideas. But Pasteur didn't win fair and square.
It turns out that some of Pasteur's experiments gave strong support to the notion that rotting organic matter produces life. Of course, years later those experiments were realized have been flawed, but at the time they buttressed the position of Pasteur's enemies. So he kept them secret.
In his myth-busting book Einstein's Luck, medical and scientific historian John Waller writes:
"In fact, throughout his feud with Pouchet, Pasteur described in his notebooks as 'successful' any experiment that seemed to disprove spontaneous generation and 'unsuccessful' any that violated his own private beliefs and experimental expectations."
When Pasteur's rivals performed experiments that supported their theory, Pasteur would not publicly replicate those studies. In one case, he simply refused to perform the experiment or even discuss it. In another, he hemmed and hawed so long that his rival gave up in exas-peration. Waller notes: "Revealingly, although Pasteur publicly ascribed Bastian's results to sloppy methodology, in private he and his team took them rather more seriously. As Gerald Geison's study of Pasteur's notebooks has recently revealed, Pasteur's team spent several weeks secretly testing Bastian's findings and refining their own ideas on the distribution of germs in the
environment."
Pasteur would rail at his rivals and even his mentor when he thought they weren't scrupulously following the scientific method, yet he had no qualms about trashing it when doing so suited his aims. Luckily for him, he was on the right side of the debate. And just why was he so cocksure that spontaneous generation was wrong? It had nothing to do with science. "In his notes he repeatedly insisted that only the Creator-God had ever exercised the power to convert the inanimate into the living," writes Waller. "The possibility that life could be created anew without man first discovering the secrets of the Creator was rejected without any attempt at scientific justification."
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Jazakallah..do you think they'd be sellin that book in the UK?
BTW, would you be able to answer me..is Loose Change a true, factual documentary?
Sorry to go off topic..
Jazakallah..do you think they'd be sellin that book in the UK?
BTW, would you be able to answer me..is Loose Change a true, factual documentary?
Sorry to go off topic..
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