Big Secrets

The inside story on institutional secrets, including the formula for Coca-Cola, how to beat a lie detector, currency conspiracies, and other hidden facts. 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 sh