Cracked Archive - Science

You Really Do Get Warm and Fuzzy, and Other Scientifically Accurate Cliches
Owls might not be nocturnal, but those cold feet of yours might actually end up saving your life
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4 Disgusting Byproducts of Human Consumption That Would Kill Captain Planet
It turns out we did not, in fact, take pollution down to zero
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- By Eli Yudin
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11 Random Things That Can Hack Our Brains Without Our Permission
Wearing red basically amounts to giving a slight all-round buff to all your stats.
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- By Andres Diplotti, Andrea Meno
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4 People Seemingly Exempt From Known Medical Science
This is what we in the medical profession refer to as a ‘mindfreak’
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- By Eli Yudin
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Don’t Trust People Who Can’t Dance
Prayers up for the dude who refuses to stop doing the worm
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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Our Lack of Imagination Is Making Us Eat Like Bears
Dieting might be as easy as pretending that we stuffed our faces a lot more than we really did
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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4 Optical Illusions People Think Are Proof of Paranormal Activity
Sometimes a hill — even when a car can seem to roll *up* it — is still just a hill
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Why We Think British People Are Smarter Than the Rest of Us Wankers
It’s actually not the accent at all — it’s what they’re saying with that gorgeous accent that makes us believe they’re the most intelligent creatures of all
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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An Incredibly Exact Calculation of Precisely How Many People Throw Up on St. Patrick’s Day
The amount of math involve might make you sick to your stomach, too
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- By Mike Rampton
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4 Modern Medical Treatments That Sound Like Fetishes
Are vibrating pills really just for constipation?
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Your Heartbeat Is Making You Late
Your internal clock is very much messing up your perception of the actual clock
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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Why All Personality Types Are Bad, According to Science
Survival of the fittest = fitting in with the crowd
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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14 Familiar Things That We’ve Been Classifying All Wrong
Sherpa is an ethnicity, not a job title.
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- By Andres Diplotti, Andrea Meno
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You’re Not Forgettable, Everyone Is Just Going Face Blind
Prosopagnosia, aka face blindness, is way more common than we ever knew
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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5 Reasons Aliens Might Invade Earth
We are here to visit your Costcos and enjoy their bountiful bulk discounts
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- By Eli Yudin
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