Does science waste time on frivolous experiments? Yep, but sometimes they pay off.

Children's franchises like to put up a front that's all lollipops and rainbows, but scratch the surface and you find that those lollipops are produced by child slave labor, while all those rainbows are the offal resulting from a mass unicorn slaughter.

It turns out that a huge amount of the scientific research done in the world seems to be based entirely on shits and giggles.

There's a pretty big difference between what works in a cartoon and what works in real life. But military generals and weapons designers both have an inner child who still likes to draw super awesome weapons on the back of a notebook.

There are all sorts of hilarious things you could do with a corpse, if only society didn't so strongly disapprove.

You can't get wrestling fans to tune in for a couple of guys pretend-fighting for an hour; you need to spice it up. In Japan, this is done with utter insanity.

While we at Cracked like to regularly terrify our readers with tales of all the frightening creatures we share the planet with, we should always keep one thing in mind: Nature is always finding ways to top itself.

To public service announcement creators: The more tempting you make your subject matter appear, the more likely your PSA will fail.