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50 Times People Opened Up Things And Just Had To Share What They Found Inside (New Pics)
You might remember lucky packets as a child. You never really knew what to expect when you opened them. And that was all part of the fun. Same goes for Christmas crackers or wrapped gifts. With those things, the element of surprise is expected. But sometimes, the most unexpected items can hold a "gift" we never even knew was there.
Like finding money hidden in a mattress, an engagement ring in your glass of champagne, or a snake in your car engine. People have been sharing their most surprising discoveries after they opened or broke something by mistake. Some are super cool, some are oddly satisfying and others are just plain strange. Bored Panda has compiled a list of our personal favorites. Keep scrolling and don't forget to upvote the ones that left your jaw on the floor.
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#1
This Natural Heptagram In An Amethyst Geode Found In Mexico
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#2
Found A Busted Rock On My Lawn So I Pulled It Apart And Found This Little Guy Inside
#3
Secret Message Inside My Dog's Squeaker Toy
Adam Benson 1 year ago (edited)
The dog's absolutely begging with its eyes for its owner to throw the toy.
When a South African woman bought a loaf of bread and left it in the refrigerator, she wasn’t expecting much. Except to be able to take the bread out and make herself a sandwich as and when needed. Nombulelo Mkumla had purchased the bread at a local store on the 27th of August. The first two days eating it was rather uneventful. As far as daily bread goes.
But on day three, things took a rather unusual turn. ‘On the morning of August 31st, I took the bread out of the fridge to make toast and noticed something disgusting and scary,’ she said, during an interview with a food magazine.
#4
Found These Beautiful Colors Hiding Inside A Piece Of Wood
#5
Came Across This Tree With Neatly Stacked Bricks Inside Of It
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
That was the only way to seal the dark portal to the nether realm. No more would the people of the village be harrassed by the things from beyond...
#6
The Inside Of This Tree Looks Like A Fish
When Mkumla opened the bread, she found something she totally was not expecting. But she couldn’t figure out what it was. So she took a photo. “I sent it to my friends, and one of them said, ‘Yi mpuku leyo tshomi‘.” Translated to English: “That’s a rat, my friend.”
Yes. You read it right. A rat. Or rather, pieces of rat remains, had been baked into her store-bought bread. Talk about finding "interesting" things inside of something else. Unexpectedly.
#7
I'm Changing The Door Knobs. The Previous Owner Put A Fake Spider Inside The Keyhole. Nearly Gave Me A Heart Attack
#9
Cut A Log & Found A Tiny Star Inside
Mkumla didn’t want to believe it at first. But soon, her denial faded. And disgust took over. “The rat scenario made sense – it’s possible the rat got into the bread at the factory, and no one noticed," she said. Her video of the discovery didn’t take long to go viral after she posted it on Facebook. People shared it. International media reported on it. And soon, the bread supplier had issued a statement.
#10
The Inside Of This Maple Tree Had A Maple Leaf Pattern
#11
Found This Rock Within A Rock On A Beach Walk
#12
Malachite Nodule Cross-Section From China. The Near-Perfect Growth Patterns Resemble Rings In A Tree Trunk. You Never Know What Treasures Are Hidden Within A Rock Until You Slice It Open
PepsiCo South Africa responded to the incident by calling it an “isolated occurrence”. The already outraged public went into overdrive. The woman claims she had received a call from a representative of the company. But it was a call that left a bitter taste in her mouth.
Here’s what she said they said: “I sincerely apologize for what happened to you. It shouldn’t have happened, but you must understand that it gets hot where we bake our products, so things like this are bound to happen.’ Yes, I admit that your bread had a rodent. We are putting measures in place to prevent this from happening again. Don’t worry; it won’t affect you health-wise.” We might beg to differ.
#13
One Of My Parents' Chickens Laid An Egg Inside An Egg
#14
The Inside Of A Pine Cone
#15
A Guy In New Hampshire Was Cutting/Splitting Up A Tree That Fell Near A Ballpark And Found This
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
Inclusions like that is the reason sawmills don't take what they call "city trees". If that was a metal object it would ruin an expensive saw blade.
#16
Inside A Saguaro Cactus
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
That ring on the inside that looks like individual tree branches are called ribs and they're great for decorating or making all sorts of arts & crafts projects. It is illegal to cut down a Saguaro cactus, but you can collected the ribs from fallen and decomposed cacti in the desert.
Mkumla definitely isn’t the first person to find something unexpected inside her food. Here are some other equally indigestible moments. Some are shocking, some are surprising. There have been stories about people finding anything from bandaids, to frogs, to teeth and even needles in the food they worked so hard to buy.
#17
One Of My Chess Knights Broke And Revealed A Dice Hidden Inside It
#18
Mini Crab Found Inside Of Mussel Shell
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Awwww he was just playing hide n seek and having a lil snack
#19
Cross-Section Of A Telecom Cable
BWC 1 year ago
Must be old. The pairs don't look twisted and I don't see any binder tape.
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Trophy Husband 1 year ago
If that's very close up and only 2 inches in diameter, then it's a100 or 200 pair cable.
Nimitz 1 year ago (edited)
I used to work at an engineering shop specializing in custom cable. The most I ever did was a 154 wire cable. Had to solder each individual wire to a solder cup inside an Amphenol style connector. It gets BRUTAL! White wire with 2 blue stripes goes to pin A7. Black wire with green stripe goes to C3. Red wire with 3 purple stripes goes to G1. Oh, and don't strip more than 1.5 inches of the casing. Good luck trying to stretch everything into place!
Paul Gerrard 1 year ago
Thats a modern one. The coloured insulation is the give away. Its mixed copper value is a fraction of a old cable which may have wrapped wires with waxed paper. Pure copper value and density is much higher. Weights 56kg per metre.
tom 1 year ago
i remember my dad bought some of this home from his work. I loved pulling it apart as a kid
Jane 1 year ago
Same here. We pulled it apart, then twisted, braided, and wove the colored wires into rings and bracelets.
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Floeckchen 1 year ago
Wow, thats a very old cable. Cables with this many wires are usually grouped together and then grouped in rings again.
James Kistler 1 year ago
Bell Operators Give Better Service, Why Run Backwards You Varmit...IYKYK
She's also not the first to find a rodent in her meal. As this magazine reported, "Matt Jones was eating at a Subway in Lincoln City, Oregon with coworkers back in 2015 when he said one of his coworkers opened up his sandwich and found a dead mouse between the spinach and cheese."
#20
This Peeled Aloe Vera Leaf
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
I can smell that picture. To me, aloe smells like perspiration odor.
#21
The Inside Of A 70s Pinball Machine
If you ever watched the movie Forrest Gump, you might remember the scene where he says his momma told him that “life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” Personally, we'd prefer the surprises to stay out of our food...
Have you ever opened, or bitten into something, and found something unexpected? Let us know in the comments.
#22
Cross-Section Of A Maple Tree That Had Been Tapped Into Over The Years (New Hampshire)
#23
Found Something Growing Inside My Fire Agate
#24
Inside A Wind Turbine Blade
#25
My Daughter Asked If We Could Take Apart One Of Her Used Insulin Pumps So She Could See Inside It
#26
The Inside Of The Leaning Tower Of Pisa Is Empty
#27
Inside Of An Air Mattress
#28
My Antibiotic Capsules Just Had A Whole Pill Inside
#29
What The Inside Of A Gas Pump Looks Like
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Would you want someone opening up your clothing, taking a picture of you, and posting it? For shame!
#30
My Girlfriend's Vitamins Have Tiny Beads Inside Them
#31
A Bullet That Got Stuck In A Tree A Long Time Ago
Manana Man 1 year ago
If this had happened a long time ago the path of the bullet would not extend almost to the bark.
#32
The Inside Of A Sunflower. You Can Already See The Seeds
#33
This Is What The Inside Of A Bowling Ball Looks Like
Skara Brae 1 year ago
Bowling balls with an asymmetric core like this one make it easier for expert bowlers to make the path of the ball curve (hook) to target the bowling pins from an angle.
#34
What The Inside Of A Pool Table Looks Like
#35
Natural Cross-Section Of An 8-Foot-Tall Sandstone Concretion In Red Rock Coulee, Alberta, Canada
Colt Winkler 1 year ago
Alberta has many natural wonders like this, like Drumheller (dinos) Okatoks erratics, really big rock from a glacier in the middle of nowhere.
#36
When I Opened My Ruko I Found A Bunch Of Signatures On The Inside
WindySwede 1 year ago (edited)
What's a Ruko? (Google was of no help). Just this one, or from the injection mould? edit: I was supposed to be asleep and with a fever, and also the title is wrong.. 😸
#37
The Inside Of An IKEA Kallax Bookshelf
#38
Cross-Section Of Agave Americana Mediopicta Alba
Pretty bizarre to see that there are distinct white lines that continue inside the plant where the chlorophyll lacking white section meets the outer green sections. This cut is about an hour old, so it looks fibrous as it begins to dry out.
#39
There’s A Mushroom Growing Inside My Potato
Seymoura Butts 1 year ago
Saw that pic on the front page I thought that was a horse hoof getting prepped for horse shoes.
#40
What The Inside Of A Golf Ball Looks Like
#41
Just Opened Up My Broken SD Card To Find It Contains A MicroSD Inside
#42
The Inside Of My "Genuine Leather" Watch Band
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
"Genuine Leather" is technically real leather in the same sense that chicken nuggets are technically real chicken--small pieces of leather that have press molded into a single large sheet and cut to need. Also known as "bonded leather" and often used for book covers. If you want actual leather--meaning leather made from a single whole cow hide, look for labels such as "whole grain leather" or "genuine calfskin".
#43
There Was A Piece Of Hose Inside This Log I Split
#44
The Inside Of An Escalator
#45
A Cross-Section Of A Fiber Optic Cable Being Laid In My Neighborhood
#46
My Sliced Agave Cupreata Experiment. Here's The Full Plant Exposed And Then Transplanted Into A Pot After A Few Days Of Drying Out
#47
Cross Section Of A Screw In Wood
#48
Cross-Section Of An Old Hot Tub
#49
Inside Of A Redbox Machine
Casey Palmer 1 year ago
It allows you to rent DVDs from a kiosk but just went under so you won't see them.
#50
The Inside Of A New Modern Bidet Toilet
Koalafied to komment 1 year ago
Dear god, please let it never be connected to the internet so hackers can do stuff with it!
#51
Inside Of The Coke Freestyle Machine
#52
Cross-Section Of An Undersea Cable
Eric Williams 1 year ago
WTF! Those are speaker wires on the inside! No wonder Netflix keeps rebooting every 20 seconds!!
#53
The Inside Of A Metered Dose Inhaler
#54
The Inside Of A Bathroom Stall Door
#55
The Inside Of A Japanese Subway Ticket Machine
#56
I Broke This Stick Of Polystyrene In A Random Place And Found A Single Grey Pellet Inside
#57
The Inside Of The Wheel Well For A B737
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Before I enlarged the image to see that it was a pump of some type, I thought the white object above the wheel was R2-D2!
#58
My Carbimazole Has A Tiny Pill Hiding Inside Of It
#59
Husqvarana Training Chainsaw
#60
Boeing 737. I Took This Picture Back In The Summer
WindySwede 1 year ago
" in ten minutes boarding will begin, please excuse the delay due to minor technical issues"
#61
Daughter's Pill Has Four Pills Inside It
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Either time release or intended to slow absorption of the pills to prevent stomach upset.
#62
The Inside Of An IKEA Coffee Table
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Will Cable 1 year ago
I was waiting to see the inside of a wallet but these days most will be empty.... Thanks governments..
James Anthony 1 year ago
I think you mean "thanks corporations" - governments don't dictate what prices those people set.
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The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago (edited)
Kinder eggs in the US are required to have the candy and toy in separate compartments due to food safety laws, so the cross section for our eggs wouldn't be very exciting.
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John Nelson 1 year ago
I popped open a big lantern battery years ago, and it was just a bunch of flashlight batteries packed in the case, linked together.
Pandamonium 1 year ago
This list needed the alien sorting mail from the Men in Black movie https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Unidentified_eight-armed_species_(Men_in_Black_II)
Will Cable 1 year ago
I was waiting to see the inside of a wallet but these days most will be empty.... Thanks governments..
James Anthony 1 year ago
I think you mean "thanks corporations" - governments don't dictate what prices those people set.
Load More Replies... The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago (edited)
Kinder eggs in the US are required to have the candy and toy in separate compartments due to food safety laws, so the cross section for our eggs wouldn't be very exciting.
Load More Replies... John Nelson 1 year ago
I popped open a big lantern battery years ago, and it was just a bunch of flashlight batteries packed in the case, linked together.
Pandamonium 1 year ago
This list needed the alien sorting mail from the Men in Black movie https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Unidentified_eight-armed_species_(Men_in_Black_II)
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