Biggest Secrets
More Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff You Are Never Supposed to Know
by William Poundstone
Ever wonder what's really in Spam? Head cheese? Chorizo? Secret recipes from hell, page 68.
One of the most respected and powerful figures in Hollywood made two pornographic films -- one of them in 3-D. Names named, page 203.
Ever since Houdini's time, magicians have baffled police and public alike by escaping from straitjackets, handcuffs, and federal prisons. Stuff they don't want you to know, page 162.
Electrified prods, rubber hoses, and transvestism are just part of what makes the U.S. Navy's equator-crossing ritual unique. Depraved secret rites, page 245.
Had enough of smug folks who build ships in bottles and won't tell you how it was done? Full disclosure, page 97.
A gazillion facelifts can't keep celebrity ages under wraps. Everyone's got a birth certificate somewhere. Legally documented ages of the famous, page 13.
Airlines, beer companies, and the U.S. government use secret codes to keep ordinary Joes and Janes in the dark. Secret decoder info, page 135.
It is darned near impossible to start a fire by rubbing sticks together. Today's Boy Scout leaders resort to covert use of matches, chemicals, and electricity. Craven deceptions, page 239.
Biggest Secrets
More Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff You Are Never Supposed to Know
by William Poundstone
Ever wonder what's really in Spam? Head cheese? Chorizo? Secret recipes from hell, page 68.
One of the most respected and powerful figures in Hollywood made two pornographic films -- one of them in 3-D. Names named, page 203.
Ever since Houdini's time, magicians have baffled police and public alike by escaping from straitjackets, handcuffs, and federal prisons. Stuff they don't want you to know, page 162.
Electrified prods, rubber hoses, and transvestism are just part of what makes the U.S. Navy's equator-crossing ritual unique. Depraved secret rites, page 245.
Had enough of smug folks who build ships in bottles and won't tell you how it was done? Full disclosure, page 97.
A gazillion facelifts can't keep celebrity ages under wraps. Everyone's got a birth certificate somewhere. Legally documented ages of the famous, page 13.
Airlines, beer companies, and the U.S. government use secret codes to keep ordinary Joes and Janes in the dark. Secret decoder info, page 135.
It is darned near impossible to start a fire by rubbing sticks together. Today's Boy Scout leaders resort to covert use of matches, chemicals, and electricity. Craven deceptions, page 239.