A study has been done to see where all the teaspoons go

They just disappear right!?

Ever make a cup of tea, head to the press and find you've no teaspoon...

You wanted to give it a good stir but alas now you resort to a tablespoon? a fork?

So why does this happen - why is there sometimes a shortage of teaspoons?

Well, one research team wanted to find out so they did a study: Where do all the teaspoons go?

At the Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health in Melbourne, the teaspoons kept vanishing.

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So director Margaret Hellard ran a study to monitor the teaspoons, according to cracked.com.

It was published under the title:

The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute.

The researchers calculated the rate of spoon disappearance.

According to their research, spoons have a half-life of 81 days, so they reckon 360 spoons vanish every 100 teaspoon-years.

As to why they disappear, they're still not quite sure.

While they interviewed employees, they gave them a chance to admit to spoon stealing, but it didn't account for such a high rate of disappearance.

So what was the conclusion?

"People have no control over teaspoon migration; escape to a spoonoid planet and resistentialism are equally plausible explanations."