Science & History
Jurassic Park's Science Actually Works (To Make Beer)
They tried saving lives. That failed, so they made beer.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Cracked's Big Questions: 4 Ways We Ended Up With So Much Junk Food
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- By Dan Fritschie
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Jurassic Park's Technical Advisor Wants To Make Real Dinosaurs From Chickens
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Meet 'Varney,' The Vampire Who Popped Up 50 Years Before 'Dracula'
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- By Jess Nevins
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
Seasons No Longer Exist, Only Hot And Cold
Tell me, father, what was this "spring" you speak of?
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- By Eli Yudin
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We Started Studying Anesthesia After Toenail Surgery Went Horribly Wrong
Turns out this stuff was more complicated than we thought.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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12 Inventions That Were Accidentally Invented Twice
It took two people multiple centuries to come up with "the lightning rod." Congrats.
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- By Eli Yudin
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15 Sadistic Facts About the Marquis de Sade, the OG King of Smut
The censorship of his work raised important questions about freedom of speech, but he was absolutely not the kind of guy you wanted to hang out with.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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15 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About the Lizzie Borden Hatchet Murders
We all know that Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks -- but did she?
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Bananas Things Apes Do In The Wild
It makes sense to fear apes: they’re humanity’s wildly unpredictable cousins. Ape violence makes us wonder what horrible instincts are lurking deep within our own natures, but it turns out reality is even more horrifying (and hornier) than fiction.
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- By Chris Corlew
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Bug Eyes Hold A Weird Secret
They're a lot less human than they look.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Poppies and Politics: The History of Memorial Day
It wasn’t always barbecue and booze.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Nutty Moments From The Lives (And Deaths) Of America's First Leaders
They died as they lived: weirdly.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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15 Weirdest Food Trends of the ‘80s
Over the course of this decade that was mostly fueled by cocaine and hairspray, food companies apparently figured that what we actually ate didn’t much matter.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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26 Food Products From The 80s (That Should Stay In The Past)
It's easy to forget that not everything from the past is worth remembering...
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- By Cracked Readers, Shea
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