Cracked Archive - Science
People Used To Blame Cavities On Evil Tooth Worms
Solution? Draw the worm out, with honey.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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8 Lovesick in the Middle Ages? A Doctor Might Slice You Open
Bloodletting made you forget all your other problems.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Fabulous Legend Of The Vegetable Lamb
People didn't used to understand hard concepts, like 'plants.'
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Doctors Shut Down An American National Insurance Plan A Century Ago
They weren't totally honest about their reasoning.
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5 Animals That Can Do The Impossible
This is some sci-fi stuff right here.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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Dramamine Became A Nausea Cure By Accident
Thanks to one allergic woman and 1,376 unwilling sailors.
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A 10-Year-Old Helped NASA (Bring Apollo 11 Back From The Moon)
We're kind of surprised that the following story, seemingly handcrafted for a movie, isn't taught to every child on their first day of school.
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Please, People, Stop Barking At Your Dogs
A new TikTok trend, a new behavioral anomaly that has experts worried.
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- By Zanandi Botes
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Sonic The Hedgehog Has A Gene Named After Him, And That's Weirdly Appropriate
There's also a gene called tiggywinkle hedgehog.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Birds Make Their Own Milk, And It's Gross
They don't squirt it out of nipples, since that's a mammal thing.
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We're Using Soap Bubbles To Pollinate Pear Trees
Because bees have been slacking off lately.
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Australian Birds Keep Committing Arson
They will firebomb us all into human nuggets.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The First Man To Spot Uranus Named It 'George'
He said it was weird to keep naming planets for gods.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Media Jumped On A Fake Story About Astronauts Going On Strike
They missed one check-in, and the story went down in history.
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Spot Something On A Distant Planet? It Might Be Much Closer Than That
Not a smudge on the telescope—think closer than that.
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