This complete compendium of shocking truths and hidden history combines volumes 1 and 2 of 50 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know.
The editor of Disinformation’s classic anthology, You Are Being Lied To and its sequel, You Are STILL Being Lied To, here offers a quick and dirty guide to undeniable facts that no one else will tell you. Designed for quick reference, this volume is filled with facts, illustrations, and graphic evidence of lies and misrepresentations. From the unsettling origins of the Barbie doll to America’s network of secret prisons, this book delivers shocking tidbits of information backed by solid sources.
For instance, did you know:
• Hitler’s blood relatives live in the United States.
• The world’s museums are filled with fakes.
• Some Fortune 500 companies are secretly making huge profits from pornography.
• An atomic bomb was dropped on North Carolina in 1958.
• The first genetically modified humans have already been born.
Russ Kick is the editor of the three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals (Seven Stories Press). It received a full-page rave review in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. His books have sold over half a million copies. The New York Times has dubbed him "an information archaeologist," Details magazine described him as "a Renaissance man," and Utne Reader named him one of its "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World." His most recent book is Death Poems published by Disinformation in 2013.