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U: CIA fixed the Anarchist's Cookbook, so explosive blows up as you make it. |
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T: You may own the mailbox, but US Postal Service controls what goes in it. |
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T: The CIA, NSA and 11 different secret govt organizations tap & bug everything |
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Fb: Hubbard started Scientology after Heinlein bet he couldn't found a religion. Bill Van Horne actually posted some useful stuff that I used to change this. |
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T: alt.religion.scientology FAQ sez "F," but I haven't been converted yet. |
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F: P&G's logo reflects Satanic or Moonie ties. |
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F: P&G's "president" appeared on "Donahue" to affirm same. ["The Procter & Gamble Trademark" in TCD] |
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F: On "Oprah" designer Liz Claiborne said her clothes were not designed for black women because their "hips were too big". |
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F: On "Oprah" designer Liz Claiborne said she supports the KKK. |
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Tb: Candy manufacturers sneakily micro-reduce size of product to gyp you. |
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F: Universal Product Codes (computer readable bar-codes) are marks of Satan. |
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P: VP Bush persuaded Iranians to delay hostage release to aid Reagan election. |
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U: Govt has secret plan to replace the currency overnight to foil drug barons. |
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Tb: CIA radio transmits spoken five digit code numbers to operatives worldwide |
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T: You can send a coconut thru the mail without any further wrapping. Yowser! |
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F: Sticking one of those "Postage Paid" reply cards on a heavy object (e.g., a brick) will cost the addressee the postage. [Nope, USPS tosses it.] |
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T: Some change-making machines can be fooled by photocopies of currency. |
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T: NSA leaned on NIST to propose less secure digital signature standard than RSA. |
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T: After a public outcry, NIST allowed a longer key (up to 1024 bits) which made it into the digital signature standard FIPS-186 |
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Tb: The reason DSA was used for digital signatures rather than the more proven RSA algorithm was that NSA opposes easy public access to an algorithm that can also be used for general encryption. (RSA can/DSA can't). |
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F: Unification Church (i.e. Moonies) owns Entenmann's bakery |
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F: Unification Church (i.e. Moonies) owns Waldenbooks. |
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Tb: Unification Church (i.e. Moonies) owns a fish processing plant in Gloucester, Massachusetts. |
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U: Those guys selling roses on roads are connected with the Moonies. |
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T: Entenmann's owned by General Foods, Philip Morris bought, merged w/ Kraft. |
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F: Govt regularly burns WWII-era hemp fields. Only high officials know where. |
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Fb: Class requests satellite imaging photo; US says "no";(then) USSR says "yes". |
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F: Compensation paid to kin of Salem witches up to 1957 (per The Economist). |
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F: Alleged witches were burned at the stake in the US during the Salem trials. |
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T: Alleged witches were hanged or pressed to death. |
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T: Mass. recanted the Salem trials and freed the witches within a few years |
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T: Name of last alleged witch was cleared in 1957. |
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Tb: Whole business is extraordinarily similar to modern accusations of Satanism. |
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T: ...For some leads on satanic ritual abuse, see: http://www.kosone.com/people/ocrt/sra.htm http://www.kosone.com/people/ocrt/ra_none.htm |
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T: Crop circles (at least in the UK) have been shown to be man-made. |
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T: Mapmakers place copyright traps in maps (e.g., Rand-McNally, no. Thomas Maps, yes) |
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Fb: Major firms/gov't suppress evidence of a super great product(car, light,etc.) ["The Economical Car" in TVH and CBA] |
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T: The USA did have a 49 star flag. |
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F: Some 1963 $1 bills have a 'K' for JFK, 11 for month of death to commemorate JFK. ["The Kennedy Note" in TMP] |
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T: Channel 1 for TV existed in the US, but was eliminated by the FCC in 1945. |
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U: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. |
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F: An undercover cop must answer yes to "Are you a cop?" to avoid entrapment. |
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Debunked: There was once a female Pope in the Roman Catholic Church. |
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Debunked: Noted atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair is petitioning the FCC to ban religious broadcasting. |
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F: U.S. Patent Office head once said that it be closed because "Everything that can be invented has been invented." |
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U: Lots of places are supposedly either 3rd or 22nd to be bombed in WWIII. |
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F: Ads for "free pets" are frequently answered by testing labs for specimens. |
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T: Gerald Ford did have a vice president(who is mentioned elsewhere in the FAQ) |
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T: Bank policies on ATMs work differently in different areas. |
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F: The king of Denmark wore a yellow star in solidarity with Jews in WWII. |
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F: The Trilateral Commission is working to take over the world. |
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F: Ditto for the Council on Foreign Relations. |
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F: Magnetic strips are embedded in US currency for nefarious purposes. |
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T: ...See "TECHNICAL BACKGROUND SECURITY FEATURES" at the U.S. Treasury Dept. |
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T: ...Of course, this won't make any difference if you REALLY KNOW otherwise. |
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T: There are many, many anecdotal stories descrbing why US$2 bills are unlucky. |
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F: It's illegal to pick Trilliums in Ontario, Canada. |
