50 Things You Probably Never Knew Existed Shared By “Yup That Exists” Instagram Page
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
This post may include affiliate links.
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
Imagine driving on the road one night, and seeing glowing roots in air
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.
Amazing! I love that they thought about how to be inclusive here. What a great project.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Wait, you can read books in Minecraft? Sorry, I've never played. Mostly Nintendo games and point-and-click adventures on Steam.
"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.
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)
Epic!!!! (duh, reread the title....owe it to the 1 am Bored panda browsing) I used oatmeal boxes.
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.
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.
Chuan-Bin Chung is an art lecturer at the Shu-Te University of Taiwan giving Anatomy of Arts and Painting Skill classes.
This must've taken quite an effort to make, even the details are all there. I love it!
And also home to several Great Old Ones and other cosmic horrors...
The books will soon be in the British Library, to join the rest of the Parthanon in the British Museum ;o)
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
Load More Replies...
But do they also lay you out on top of the corpses of all your worst enemies? If not then I ain't going.
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...
Otherwise it would be "cultural appropriation", which is bound to insult someone somewhere.
Load More Replies...
I hope there are good archer in Maine... Pic-3.jpg 
(I know, it's not viking)
The silicone scandis must be stopped. Please stop bastardizing my culture.
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? 🤔😒
Load More Replies... 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.
Maby the mushroom box floats, then you can have both!
Load More Replies... 
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.
Load More Replies... Needs about 50 sticks of Dynamite rigged to go off once the boat is fully alight to give it some pyrotechnic flair.
They sink to the bottem of whatever body of water they are set afloat on.
Load More Replies...
Sorry for my ignorance on this but....then what? What do they do with the remains/ashes afterwards?
then what? Time to dive for free skulls for Halloween decorations.
Load More Replies...
I´m Swedish and I don´t mind if people have a viking funeral - after all, it was a 1000 years ago.
That's almost as good as Oregon's death wishes.Out in a blaze of glory. Hey kids, time for smorse with grandpa.
No different if getting a cremation by funeral home. Cheaper.
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.
As the body burns and descends in the water it feeds the fish. This increase in entirely new ecosystem.
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.
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.
Great, bet my allergies won't like this being burned anymore than it does wood.
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.
Pyres aren't hot enough to actually cremate, though. All you do is cook the corpse.
Is that presently illegal? What led the state to pass a law banning such a thing?
The fishies and bottom feeders see the fires go out and the boats sink and think "Yay! Barbecue."
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.
Only thi g im qorried about is the smell of burning flesh either grossing people out ot making future cannibals hungry o.o
I mean, are they going to send you a ticket to Valhalla if you DO it now?!!!
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.
Why not just dump em out in the back yard and let nature take it’s course ?
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.
Exactly how I, a viking warrior goddess, should leave this mortal realm.
This is more a hobbit burial than a viking ditto — or who rests in all the viking land graves?
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 😂
Awe, the ducks are so intricate, being a huge duck lover, I love this!
No a murmuration is just a cloud of starlings. Any one we see shapes in (like clouds) is just in our brain, they're NOT trying to look like predators.
I've always wondered how they are able to "tell"/validate that this is indeed a new shade of blue. I mean, to the human eye, it must be pretty impossible to tell it apart from other close shades?
How do you clean it? Everything little thing will get caught in all the nooks and crannies.
They should also have added these sea slugs can use photosynthesis.
Please someone tell me that I'm not the only one confused about its practical use
I guess manholes in Romania go to different kinds of places than the ones I have to deal with...
Wait, the f****n Smurfs movie had a whole real town paint their houses blue. For the Smurfs? stepping over the line a bit.
It would be really dumb to do something like that. Plants even needs resting time.
I just visited this site and it is incredible. I've been losing faith in humanity during the pandemic and reading what people are writing in their most vulnerable and open state is so beautiful. It's exactly what I needed today.
Much like the Himalayan Monks that create beautiful works of art to destroy as to never put value on material items.
It's the Big Birthday Blowout, for those of you trying to watch it now.
all comments are - so lemme say, there's someone who made a pencil globe, ill attach the pic/vid ok pencilglob...f6584c.jpg 
Cruel. Fish get stressed out easily, and this insensitive cage would certainly do just that.
Another awesome post! I'm gonna try and stick to there inspiring posts, and forget about the negative ones.
I'm trying that. It certainly cuts down on browsing time and unnecessary negativity. Sometimes curiosity wins though.
Load More Replies... This entire post is a great argument for arts education and creative problem-solving! So many clever, simple, and cost-effective problem-solving ideas come from outside the box, creative thinkers. Show this thread to anyone who says studying art is a waste of time!
There's a lot of spelling errors, but other than that, I really enjoyed this post!
Great and informative information
interesting and clever !!! Please keep it going. Sincerely, a pleased panda peeper
The ones that specifically mention America are like OooOoOOhhh look at the pretty colors, you can be burned after death if you want!! But ALSO did we mention we let a DUCK race in our marathon?? We look so simple in comparison 😂 but good for that duck tho!
More like this and less of the anti-science blue-haired trans-vaccinated crap you usually spew
I was all happy until #50. Now I am going to have existential nightmares about robot klansmen. I didn't need to learn this fact.
Apart from the spelling errors and factual liberties, I guess this was fine.
More of these please. I skip most pages these days because they are so negative.
So, once again, Japan proves that even their silliest of ideas are still aweing the rest of the world. Meanwhile, they have a serious population decline and everything there just costs so much money.
Another awesome post! I'm gonna try and stick to there inspiring posts, and forget about the negative ones.
I'm trying that. It certainly cuts down on browsing time and unnecessary negativity. Sometimes curiosity wins though.
Load More Replies... This entire post is a great argument for arts education and creative problem-solving! So many clever, simple, and cost-effective problem-solving ideas come from outside the box, creative thinkers. Show this thread to anyone who says studying art is a waste of time!
There's a lot of spelling errors, but other than that, I really enjoyed this post!
Great and informative information
interesting and clever !!! Please keep it going. Sincerely, a pleased panda peeper
The ones that specifically mention America are like OooOoOOhhh look at the pretty colors, you can be burned after death if you want!! But ALSO did we mention we let a DUCK race in our marathon?? We look so simple in comparison 😂 but good for that duck tho!
More like this and less of the anti-science blue-haired trans-vaccinated crap you usually spew
I was all happy until #50. Now I am going to have existential nightmares about robot klansmen. I didn't need to learn this fact.
Apart from the spelling errors and factual liberties, I guess this was fine.
More of these please. I skip most pages these days because they are so negative.
So, once again, Japan proves that even their silliest of ideas are still aweing the rest of the world. Meanwhile, they have a serious population decline and everything there just costs so much money.
