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If you ever feel like you’ve seen it all, done it all, bought it all, then you clearly haven’t spent enough time on the internet. We might spend way more time online than your average Panda, but even we get surprised by some of the things we stumble across. To say that these make us do a double-take would be a disservice: there’s a third take and a fourth one, too.

One page that really caught our attention is the ‘Yup That Exists’ project, found on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and elsewhere. ‘Yup That Exists’ documents all the bizarre and unusual things that “you never knew existed.” From strange facts and products that will raise more eyebrows than we can count to wonderfully weird things that you’ll want to share with your friends.

Scroll down for the best of ‘Yup That Exists,’ and upvote your fave pics, dear Pandas. If you have a moment or two, we’d love to hear which of these things you were most surprised by. So drop on by the comment section.

More info: Instagram | Facebook | TikTok | YupThatExists.com

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

nzambi matee — a nairobi-based 29-year-old entrepreneur and inventor — is the founder of a startup that recycles plastic waste into bricks that are stronger than concrete. called gjenge makers ltd, her company initiated following the development of a prototype machine that turns discarded plastic into paving stones

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The ‘Yup That Exists’ project is very popular online. It has branched out to all the major social media channels and dug its roots deep. For instance, on Facebook, it’s amassed a whopping 711.6k followers.

Meanwhile, the ‘Yup That Exists’ project has over 401k followers on Instagram. Whereas on TikTok, it has over 554.8k followers and has collected over 14.8 million likes across all of its videos. Say what you like, but strangeness clearly sells, especially when paired with interesting information. And the entire project has won over the hearts of many an internet user.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amazing! I love that they thought about how to be inclusive here. What a great project.

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However, you describe the things in this list—peculiar, odd, downright bizarre, or even aesthetically challenged—one fact remains: they’re eye-catching. They stand out. They hook you and reel you in because they’re so far away from the norm.

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Earlier, Bored Panda spoke about this with Swiss design experts Jonas Nyffenegger and Sébastien Mathys who run the Ugly Design Instagram project. According to them, they have a love for ugliness that keeps growing, meaning the line between ugliness and beauty gets blurred. And that helps content stand out from the crowd.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or you could decorated a tree in your yard if you have one. Does not have to be indoors.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It assumes that there are forms of life that are not sentient (aware of one's own existence) that are ok to be cooked alive. I feel all life is equally valuable, if not equal tasting. Respect the life given.

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"It appears more and more of our followers have completely lost their taste. That’s a good thing. It means they’ll have to find it again. It will most likely be forever changed,” they told us.

Jonas and Sébastien explained to Bored Panda that different designs stand out from the crowd on social media. “When seeing an ugly design rather than perfect aesthetics (as defined in the 21st century)—scrollers takes notice,” they said that unpredictability wows viewers.

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Some people even take bizarre designs to a whole other level by incorporating them into their homes and gardens. History teacher James Hull and landscape architect Bede Brennan, the founders of another popular Instagram page that celebrates weirdness in gardens, told Bored Panda that just because something has a funny vibe, a weird aesthetic, or is different doesn’t necessarily make it bad. 

"We love the way people put themselves out there with their gardens. Gardens are a really personal thing and are always on display out the front of your home. They require huge amounts of effort and upkeep too," they said that even ugliness has artistic and aesthetic merit.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait, you can read books in Minecraft? Sorry, I've never played. Mostly Nintendo games and point-and-click adventures on Steam.

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"Certainly, there is something about the ugly aesthetic which stands out on Instagram, a garden doesn’t have to be classically beautiful to stand out, make you happy, or be a landmark in the real world either," James and Bede told us that the peculiar really does stand out on people’s social feeds.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, that's the first time I have seen someone putting a wool product to use in order to cool down.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

how it works: they carefully prune the branches of Kitayama cedar trees, ensuring the remaining shoots grow straight upwards. this results in round and straight timber (taruki) like the trees in the picture. harvesting takes around 20 years and the trees can grow up to 100 shoots at a time. (source: greenqueen.com.hk)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's all well and good until a tiny piece of cloth gets caught in it and stops it dead. Captain has to dive down and spend 15 minutes trying to get it unstuck by going backwards a bit and forwards a bit.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Epic!!!! (duh, reread the title....owe it to the 1 am Bored panda browsing) I used oatmeal boxes.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate things like that and I don't even smoke. I fully support smoking bans in public places where your smoke can harm others but what I do with my body is not the business of a nanny state government.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the same with the Youth Hostel at the Rocks in Sydney! Not only can you see the historical dig site underneath, but there are glass cases in the common room displaying various artefacts.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not ''to another city'', it's to Lublin, the very city where the Polish Lithuanian alliance treaty has been signed, inaugurating 400 years of union between the two countries

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Chuan-Bin Chung is an art lecturer at the Shu-Te University of Taiwan giving Anatomy of Arts and Painting Skill classes.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All is nice and fun during the day. Running into one in dark is a whole new story. 😬

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This must've taken quite an effort to make, even the details are all there. I love it!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The books will soon be in the British Library, to join the rest of the Parthanon in the British Museum ;o)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

as opposed to burials, which use land and often do not degrade, the body is biodegradable and will burn naturally and is thus more eco-friendly

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But do they also lay you out on top of the corpses of all your worst enemies? If not then I ain't going.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Viking funerals are cool and all but all I can think is that Maine must have a lot of those cringy people claiming to be actual vikings because their Ancestry DNA test showed 2% Scandinavian...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Otherwise it would be "cultural appropriation", which is bound to insult someone somewhere.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The silicone scandis must be stopped. Please stop bastardizing my culture.

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Ophelia Jo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am 1/4 Norwegian, but I can't stand all these Americans (I am also from US) running around calling themselves Vikings. BS. You are not a Viking. It's cultural appropriation but somehow it's OK? 🤔😒

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder how many starter sticks you would need? My luck, I'd sputter out in the middle of the lake and spend eternity as a half charred corpse floating around like a gruesome swimming platform.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And nobody is screaming "cultural appropriation!!11" here? Interesting.

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Ophelia Jo
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 1/4 Norwegian but there's no way I would disrespect the Viking culture by having this type of "funeral". I'm not a Viking.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Needs about 50 sticks of Dynamite rigged to go off once the boat is fully alight to give it some pyrotechnic flair.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And what do they do with the bodies after they are burned?

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Ann Tegnér
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I´m Swedish and I don´t mind if people have a viking funeral - after all, it was a 1000 years ago.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's almost as good as Oregon's death wishes.Out in a blaze of glory. Hey kids, time for smorse with grandpa.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As the body burns it will slowly sink into the water and feed the fish and create an entirely new ecosystem. Much better than bearing people after a funeral in the ground.

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Steven Meyer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As the body burns and descends in the water it feeds the fish. This increase in entirely new ecosystem.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who cares if it’s environmentally friendly…it’s Vikings!

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Jozef Becker
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Problem is, the body will not burn completely. If the ship even manages to achieve the heat it takes to burn a body, it will destroy the ship first leaving a cooked corpse to float around.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just some wood and organic material. Hey, other animals are burned every day ( for our food and from other reasons, as in wildfires. I consider it better than every body taking up a plot of land after they are dead, while all living people need a place to live. Our bodies have a purpose while we live.They end there.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great, bet my allergies won't like this being burned anymore than it does wood.

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Rannveig Ess
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This would just cause half-burned bodies to be floating in the lake. Bodies don't just light on fair and burn to ash. It takes two to four hours, depending on weight and obesity, at temperatures ranging from 1,400 and 2,100 F (760 and 1,150 C) and will leave bone fragments. I'm assuming a flammable liquid of some type would be used...gasoline, etc. This pollutes and a lot would be needed. Unless the wood is 100% natural and untreated, all kinds of chemicals like formaldehyde pollute. (That's nit picking a bit, but it's part of the details just in case) All that pollutes the lake unless someone follows and picks up the parts that didn't burn and cleans up after this.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pyres aren't hot enough to actually cremate, though. All you do is cook the corpse.

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Mark Johansen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is that presently illegal? What led the state to pass a law banning such a thing?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think I'd preferred being turned into biochar. Then an art exhibit.

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Cenk Karaferya
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why aren't people spending their time with something more useful

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Meh I seen one the other day when Ivarr was given one. 😏

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fishies and bottom feeders see the fires go out and the boats sink and think "Yay! Barbecue."

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Vikings never did this. And it wouldn’t work. The amount of wood you’d need to burn a buddy wouldn’t stay afloat or aflame on a ship long enough to burn a body.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only thi g im qorried about is the smell of burning flesh either grossing people out ot making future cannibals hungry o.o

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Kai David
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All the toxic chemicals inserted into the dead body that do not allow the body to decompose. This is much better

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Paul Z.
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just imagine the charred remains of aunt Betty washing up on shore... yhg

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Kevin Warner
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, are they going to send you a ticket to Valhalla if you DO it now?!!!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I did this for my husband; placed his ashes in a wooden box on top of a small wooden raft and set the whole thing on fire on Blue Lake, in northern California.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is it possible to burn at the right temp (and keep it burning) the body enough to actually cremate? Actual cremation takes awhile.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not as harmful to the environment as the religious funeral pyres in India. Where do they get all that wood from?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Politicians are really the weird worst whackos....who thought of such a bill? How did they even start thinking of that? Is there Viking funerals lobby group? I have a fuckton of questions

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They didn't really burn ships, that would be incredibly wasteful as building a ship takes a lot of work. They had ship shaped burial mounds though.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why not just dump em out in the back yard and let nature take it’s course ?

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hell yeah! Told my kids this is what I want or either a funeral pyre, on top of a mountain somewhere. Just wrap me up and set ablaze. Then have fireworks go off and have Vince Gill's Go Rest High on That Mountain playing.... or Metallica playing Wherever I May Roam.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oderus Urungus/Dave Brockie of GWAR had this kind of funeral. Miss him making art.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly how I, a viking warrior goddess, should leave this mortal realm.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is more a hobbit burial than a viking ditto — or who rests in all the viking land graves?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah it was a twitter or fb account or something and programmed to read the comments and tags from other people and learn human behaviour from there - they made the mistake of telling people this mf existed 😂

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