Science & History
5 Seemingly Random Factors That Control Your Memory
Our old friend science has tracked down some of the completely random things that decide whether or not your memory will choose to function at a particular moment. Thanks, science.
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- By Eddie Rodriguez
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The 8 Most Incredible Things Slapped Together in a Day
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- By Christina H
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5 Species You Won't Believe Are Related
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- By Michael Vozniak
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5 Terrifying Killers (That Turned Out to be Mass Panics)
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
The 8 Most Mind Blowing Disguises in Nature
Let's face it, we all hate nature to varying degrees and for our own reasons. But surely nothing inspires loathing of the animal kingdom like the fact that its creatures are constantly trying to trick us.
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- By Monte Richard, E. Reid Ross
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The 5 Most Badass Tales of Wartime Survival
Every single person on this list puts Bear Grylls' tales of 'badassery' to shame
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- By Chris J.
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The 5 Most Clearly Cursed Expeditions of All Time
We tend to romanticize the age of exploration, like it was all grand exotic frontiers and tiny people tying sailors down with ropes. What we don't hear about so often is the scurvy and the starvation and the months of endless walking through landscapes full of awfulness. And that's too bad, because it actually makes their stories that much more bad
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- By Eric Yosomono, Dustin Koski
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5 Ways to Beat Old-School Games Using Math
We wondered if there were ways to use math to completely ruin all innocent games from our childhood. Guess what? There are!
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- By Karl Smallwood
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5 Historic Artifacts You Won't Believe Still Work
Unless you're talking about diamonds, Twinkies or vampires, lasting forever usually isn't in the cards. Yet all over the world -- and universe -- there are machines, engineering feats and pieces of meat that never got the memo that we all have a use-by date.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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6 New Age Cures That Aren't As Full Of Crap As You Think
It's no shock to find out that remedies involving magic and ghosts don't really make your pain go away. It would be more of a surprise to learn that they do. Well ... surprise! (Sort of.)
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- By Pauli Poisuo, Alexia Franklin
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The 5 Most Spectacular Landscapes on Earth (That Murder You)
Mother Nature is an evil bitch that wants us dead.
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- By Budd Erickson
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5 Mind-Blowing Things Found in Our Own Solar System
Space is full of mysteries, and you don't have to go far to find them. It's easy to forget that, after mankind went to the moon and found out it was just a boring, dusty ghost town.
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- By Budd Erickson
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7 Scientific Reasons You'll Turn Out Just Like Your Parents
Science has some bad news for you: The behaviors of the elderly that you write off as old-person lameness, and your behavior that the elderly credit to dickish rebellion, are all based in biology. And no, you can't stop it.
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- By Michael Record
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6 Historical Events That Are Way More Modern Than You Think
In which you'll discover that stuff you only thought existed in grainy old pictures continued until just a few years ago.
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- By Robert Evans, Pauli Poisuo, Jacopo della Quercia , Xavier Jackson
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6 Mind-Blowing Ways Poop Created the Modern World
We here at Cracked take pride in our research department's ability to make as many poop jokes in a 2,000-word article as is humanly possible. Especially when it's about poop.
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- By Mohammed Shariff
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