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Also by William Poundstone:

Rock Breaks Scissors, June 2014
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Are You Smart Enough To Work At Google?, January 2012
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Priceless, January 2010
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Gaming the Vote, February 2008
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Big Secrets, June 1985
Paperback (reprint)

BIG SECRETS
By: William Poundstone

The Book That Gives the Inside Story on Hundreds of Secrets of American Life --Big Secrets.

Harper
June 1985
232 pages
ISBN: 0688048307
Paperback (reprint)
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Are there really secret backward messages in rock music, or is somebody nuts? We tested suspect tunes at a recording studio to find out.

What goes on at Freemason initiations? Here's the whole story, including -- yes! -- the electric carpet.

Colonel Sanders boasted that Kentucky Fried Chicken's eleven secret herbs and spices "stand on everybody's shelf." We got a sample of the seasoning mix and sent it to a food chemist for analysis.

Feverish rumor has it that Walt Disney's body was frozen and now lies in a secret cryonic vault somewhere beneath the Pirates of the Caribbean exhibit at Disneyland. Read the certified stranger-than-fiction truth.

Don't bother trying to figure out how Doug Henning, David Copperfield, and Harry Blackstone, Jr., perform their illusions. Big Secrets has complete explanations and diagrams, nothing left to the imagination.

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