Cracked Archive - Science
8 Things You Won't Believe Plants Do When No One's Looking
It turns out that plants are capable of some pretty sophisticated, even downright nefarious schemes.
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- By Monte Richard
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843 5 Real Animal Friendships Straight Out of a Disney Movie
Sometimes, vicious carnivores of the world take an appraising look at centuries of biological necessity, then turn their back on it and say, 'Screw that noise, let's be friends.'
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- By Marshall Lemon
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5 Ways Your Bad Habits Might Just Save Your Life
Depending on what's wrong with you, the cure can often be found in the things your health nut friends warned you about.
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- By Sam C.
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The 6 Most Horrifying Lies The Food Industry is Feeding You
If there's one thing in the world the food industry is dead set against, it's allowing you to actually maintain some level of control over what you eat.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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8 Simple Questions You Won't Believe Science Can't Answer
You think you understand gravity. And then you start looking at what it actually is, and then you're in a world of shit.
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- By Eddie Rodriguez
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5 Things You Do Every Day That Are Actually Addictions
As science gets a better understanding of how addiction works in the brain, suddenly a whole lot of our habits and cultural phenomena make more sense.
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- By Mike Haring
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7 Famous 'Unsolved' Mysteries (Science Solved Years Ago)
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- By Pauli Poisuo, M. Asher Cantrell
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6 Ways Your Sense of Smell Is Secretly Controlling Your Mind
Apparently, the sense of smell can give you powers that would make Professor X jealous.
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- By C. Coville
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5 Major Cities That Are Going to Be Destroyed
'Why don't they move?' is a common question after a recurring natural disaster. Chances are that you may be in the same boat.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 5 Most Badass Things Done While Conquering a Mountain
Hemingway once noted that bull fighting, motor racing and mountaineering were the only true sports. Meaning, if there wasn't a risk of death, it was just a game. To that end, mountaineering stands above the rest.
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- By Erling Fasting
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The 6 Most Frequently Quoted Brain Facts (That Are Total BS)
After millennia of research, experts still don't know very much about the human brain. As such, most of what you have picked up on the subject from pop culture is just laughably wrong.
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- By J.N. Chaney
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6 Animals That Kill Nature's Scariest Creatures For Fun
For every animal you'd be terrified to run across in the wild, the odds are there is at least one other beast who sees it as a tasty snack. And often it's what you'd least expect.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Things You Won't Believe Animals Do Just Like Us
Hold on, humanity. Before we go boasting about our opposable thumbs, maybe we should take a deep breath and calm down.
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- By Kristi Harrison, Fady Labib, Eddie Rodriguez
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The 5 Creepiest Ways Animals Have Mastered Mind Control
Humans have been trying to control each other's minds for centuries, but have only succeeded in getting people to buy more tortilla chips and hand cream. Meanwhile, in the animal kingdom, absurd comic-book style mind-control plots have been coming true for millennia.
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- By Luke Taylor
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5 Physical Details That Reveal Highly Personal Information
None of these are 100 percent, and you should not use any of them to make unfair assumptions about people. It is only in the name of entertainment that we point out what researchers have found.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Eric Yosomono
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