Cracked Archive - Science
The 6 Craziest Beliefs Entire Cultures Have Held About Sex
We like to think we've got a pretty good handle on how sex works at this point, but to be honest, we'd have paid way more attention in sex ed class if they'd told us these things.
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- By Isaac Mook
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1195 5 Animals Who Live Through a Horror Movie Every Day
As many unimaginable horrors as Mother Nature enjoys throwing at us, there are other, less fortunate animals out there who live their entire lives hunted by the kind of creatures that make horror movie villains pale in comparison.
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- By Andrew Munro, Lachlan M.
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5 Amazing Ways Animals Can Control Their Bodies
In the game of "Pick a Superpower" let us submit some lesser known yet still amazing bodily functions that would be life-changing or, if nothing else, hilarious.
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- By Karl Smallwood, Agneeth Mazumdar, Micah Duke
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6 Things That Secretly Make You Act Like a Jerk
It is horrifyingly easy to manipulate a person's moral decisions without them knowing it -- that's why this is one of our favorite subjects.
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- By XJ Selman
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5 Everyday Pieces of Clothing With Shocking Health Risks
You should probably avoid wearing the following common clothing items that are physically damaging, or in some cases even trying to outright kill you.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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5 Reasons Modern Life Is Driving Manliness to Extinction
Science says that testosterone levels in America are disappearing like there's no tomorrow. But why?
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- By C. Coville, Rev. Les Crowley
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6 Elaborate Science Experiments Done Just for the Hell of It
It turns out that a huge amount of the scientific research done in the world seems to be based entirely on shits and giggles.
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- By Elsa Moriarty
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5 Seemingly Harmful Things That Make You Live Longer
Apparently science says that there are plenty of random and even bad habits that will help us live longer.
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- By Elorm Kojo Ntumy
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5 Workplaces Annoyances That Can Actually Boost Creativity
Science shows that almost everything you hate about your shitty office actually makes you more creative.
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- By Elorm Kojo Ntumy
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7 Bizarre Prehistoric Versions of Modern-Day Animals
Nobody ever cranks out a masterpiece in one sitting. Not even Mother Nature gets it right the first time.
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- By Agneeth Mazumdar
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9 Animals That Are Just Lazy Combinations of Other Animals
Remember the first time you saw a platypus as a kid and for a moment refused to believe that nature would really create an animal that looks like a duck had sex with a beaver? Well guess what, the world is actually full of bizarre mashup creatures like that, some of them hilarious and some of them terrifying, all of them looking like the result of
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- By Andrew Burch, Monte Richard, E. Reid Ross
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5 Everyday Things That Can Literally Drive You Crazy
Your brain is just another part of your body, and just as you can get a cold by touching a doorknob somebody sneezed on, there are all sorts of random and innocuous things that can make it go haywire.
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- By XJ Selman, Nadia Lopez
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5 Of Life's Most Mundane Problems (Solved With Math)
Not everyone can discover the cure for cancer, which is apparently why a whole lot of scientists opt to research other, more mundane things.
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- By Karl Smallwood, XJ Selman
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The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Superpowers of Bees
If you thought that flitting around flowers and falling over dead were the only things bees were good at, then you are sorely misinformed, friend.
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- By Monte Richard
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8 Ordinary Photos Hiding Mind-Blowing Details
Sometimes a photo that looks completely boring and mundane at first glance can reveal mind-blowing details once you bother to take a closer look at it. Like two visible areolas.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Xavier Jackson, Curren Mcdowell, Alaric Penname
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