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Barcodes are really intended to Control people
Some conspiracy theorists have proposed that barcodes are really intended to serve as means of control by a world government, or that they are, in fact, Satanic. Mary Stewart Relfe claims in The New Money System 666 that barcodes secretly encode the number 666 (for those of you who never listened to Motley Crue or Iron Maiden, that's the "Number of the Beast"). This theory has been adopted by other fringe figures such as the "oracle" Sollog, who refuses to label any of his books with barcodes on the grounds that "any type of computer numbering systems MANDATED by any government or business is part of the PROPHECY of the BEAST controlling you." Of course it is.


Microsoft sends messages on Wingdings Font
The Wingdings font included with Windows has a history of controversy. In 1992, only days after the release of Windows 3.1, it was discovered that the character sequence "NYC" in Wingdings was rendered as Skull and Crossbones symbol, Star of David, and thumbs up gesture. This could be interpreted -and was, not surprisingly- as a message of approval of killing Jews, especially those from New York City. Microsoft strongly denied this was intentional, and insisted that the final arrangement of the glyphs in the font was largely random. Various other combinations of Wingings characters are alleged to have special significance by conspiracy theorists, but these results are likely purely coincidental... riiiiiiiight.

Apollo 11 Moon Landings were faked by NASA
Proponents of the Apollo moon landing hoax accusations allege that the Apollo moon landings never took place, and were faked by NASA with possible CIA support. Enthusiasts of this theory claim that:

- The astronauts could not have survived the trip because of exposure to radiation
- There are no stars in any of the photos; no one reports seeing any stars from the capsule
- Identical backgrounds in photos that are listed as taken miles apart.
- The moon's surface during the daytime is so hot that camera film would have melted.
- No blast crater appeared from the landing
- The launch rocket produced no visible flame.
- The flag placed on the moon's surface flapped despite there being no wind on the Moon

(Come on...we all know this one is true)