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* A ''[[House of Mouse]]'' episode had Clarabelle about to reveal a big secret and everybody in the Club is worried is going to be his/her secret. By asking Clarabelle what about, they finish revealing their own secret to Clarabelle instead: Mickey do something in his ears so are always rounded no matter angle you see it, while Donald reveal he's part Goose. When is Goofy turn, he discard Mickey's and Donald's like everybody already know that, but his secret, according to him, is bigger {{spoiler|He's rather clumsy. And can prove it!}}

* A [[Running Gag]] on ''[[King of the Hill]]'' was that Dale's wife Nancy was "secretly" sleeping with her massage therapist John Redcorn; John was even the true father of Nancy's son, which Dale assumed was his. Pretty much ''everyone'' in town knew about this except Peggy and Dale himself, and Peggy figured it out eventually. What makes this especially funny is that Dale is a [[Conspiracy Theorist]] who doesn't trust ''anyone'' except his family and closest friends, a group that includes John.

 

== Real Life ==

* [[The Rest of the Nuclear Club|Israel's nukes]]. They haven't ''officially'' revealed them yet, but when then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert accidentally (or perhaps accidentally on purpose) said that Israel had nukes in a speech in 2006, the world barely noticed.

*** The reason for Israel going this route is strategic. Israel's potential regional enemies (e.g. Iran, Iraq, Egypt<ref>we should note here that Egypt was never particularly serious about developing a bomb, whatever [[Tom Lehrer]] might say</ref>) know it has nukes, and are thus deterred from military action that would threaten Israel's existence. They can't acquire their own nukes because they're parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which forbids owning any (except for the US, Soviet Union/Russia, China, the UK and France) and subjects them to IAEA inspections. And they can't withdraw from the NPT without an "imminent threat" to their security (such as a nearby rival having nukes already), which officially doesn't exist because Israel officially refuses to confirm anything. In other words, it's an endless cycle of [[I Know You Know I Know]] and [[Willful Blindness]] on both sides. (Not fear of IAEA inspections, as many Israelis claim; Israel is ''not'' a party to the NPT and unlikely to become one in the foreseeable future, so it's not subject to inspections, and declaring its stockpile would have no effect on that—any Israel politician mentioning inspections is just trying to scare you.)

* Everybody pretty much knows that the United States (particularly the CIA) is responsible for the "mysterious" drone missile attacks in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, since they're the only country with the motive and means to do so. However, so far, American officials have never officially admitted any responsibility or association with the attacks.

 

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[[Category:The Secret Index]]

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