Science & History
5 Species You Won't Believe Are Related
Imagine you're an animal, attending your evolutionary family reunion. You might be surprised to find out how remarkably similar it is to your last family reunion: You spend the day trying to avoid 'that guy' that no one wants to admit you're related to, while the rest of your relatives randomly eat each other. This article is for the 'that guys.'
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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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The 8 Most Mind Blowing Disguises in Nature
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- By Monte Richard, E. Reid Ross
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The 5 Most Badass Tales of Wartime Survival
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- By Chris J.
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
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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6 Insect Predators That Go Out of Their Way to Be Evil
You might think of insects as gross or scary, but you probably don't think of them as evil. But, upon closer inspection, we actually think they are.
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- By Jonathan Wojcik
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6 Terrifying New Creatures Science Just Discovered
While we at Cracked like to regularly terrify our readers with tales of all the frightening creatures we share the planet with, we should always keep one thing in mind: Nature is always finding ways to top itself.
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- By CRACKED Staff, Elsa Moriarty
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