Cracked Archive - Science

The Father of the Hass Avocado Made a Total of Four Grand From It
Avocado toast pays — just not for him
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Dying Words of Cancer Cells Are Instructions on How to Kill You
Like some sort of sadistic Paul Revere, they warn all of their neighboring cancer cells to scatter and hide before they can be blasted with chemo, too.
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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John from Accounting Might Be the Key to Sticking to Your Diet
Sure, his small talk is terrible, but his salad solidarity could mean a lot more for your health than you think
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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Beekeeping Hasn’t Changed in Nearly 200 Years
We still harvest bee puke from little boxes
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Stockholm Syndrome Kinda Isn’t A Thing
How will we diagnose movie characters now?
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- By Ryan Menezes
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8 Ways Turkeys Are Total Madmen Who Would Happily Kill You
If you die, you die.
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- By Eli Yudin
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Baby Koalas Eat Something Truly Disgusting
it comes out of their mother, and not out the nipples.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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15 Birds Ranked By How Easy They Would Be To Fight
When the bird army comes, who do you want to be matched up against?
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- By Eli Yudin
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Birth Control Pills Actually Contain Pro-Baby Vitamins
This isn't what we thought 'tainted drugs' were.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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15 Scientific Factors That Secretly Influence Who You Have Sex With
We're sorry to tell you that free will is an illusion.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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15 Weird Ways Being Sleepy Ruins Your Life (According to Science)
It's not just an extra five minutes applying concealer or your local coffee shop's exorbitant prices.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Poison Cigarettes Treated Asthma In The ’60s
Belladonna, anyone?
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- By Ryan Menezes
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A Tall Man's Plea: Stop Reclining Your Seat On Planes
The world's knees could be saved with a simple compromise.
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- By Eli Yudin
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It Took People Freakishly Long To Realize That Blood Circulates
They thought the liver makes blood continuously and spurts it like a fountain.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Tycho Brahe: History’s Hardest-Partying Scientist
If you think science and raging are mutually exclusive, you've never heard of Tycho Brahe.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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