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.
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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.
And yet you're not supposed to paint your bedroom blue because it promotes depression
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They use blue lights in some public toilets in the UK, but that's to stop drug users finding a vein...
They trialed this in Scotland by replacing street lights with blue lights, antisocial behavior and depression levels dropped almost immediately. Plus it makes the city look spectacular at night.
How do we implement such a program in the US to prevent random shootings?
Wonder what would be the outcome if they study the effects of a healthy work-life-balance...
I live in the "richest, greatest country on Earth" and I can't even imagine a railway company spending a single penny on something like this. In America we're lucky railway companies even still exist.
I wonder what the study showed about increase in migraines. Blue can be a very heavy migraine trigger.
Interesting. For me reds are triggers. Especially bright or flashing reds.
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Jeez, what color lights were they using before?? I-can't-go-on-magenta? Make-it-stop-yellow?
This is a good thing but it may only be a correlation, not causation. The overall suicide rate of Japan has declined by a similar amount over the same period of time. Death by railroad is still is a top 5 cause. Most (69% in 2015) victims are people considered "not employed". This includes pensioners, homemakers, and those who can't find work. They do it because they are lonely or don't want to be a burden not because of stress. Because of this, they are much less likely to go in front of a train because that would delay others. Japan actually has a cabinet level Minister of Loneliness that is attempting to counter their leading cause.
Did you know that there is actually no blue color present in nature? Google it, super fascinating!!!
You are right. Yet many folks claim to have blue flowers in their plants. There are no true blue in flowers.
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Why? Does it really solve a problem or do they just go somewhere else to do it? Were there ANY lights before?
I never understood why some car companies use red dashboard lights. Red is an emotional, angry color.
Now they need to spend some time and money figuring out why there are so many suicides in Japan in the first place!
Wonderful, but kind of sad that something so simple can make such a big difference in life or death. We are oh so fragile.
Yeah it's a big thing in Japan eh. They need to look at their social structure.
Blue light also makes it impossible to find veins for shooting up drugs or so I've heard, so some of those statistics are likely from lack of overdosing. Either way or both, good on them.
also being lit up so well would make them embarrassed to be caught killing themselves?
I just want to understand the history of this countries suicidal tendencies. From honor systems to military orders, Samurai to kamikaze (who had no choice in the matter when given orders to plant your plane in a target and remain in the cockpit essentially becoming just another piece of military grade guidance equipment. I'm not even gonna go into their depression induced suicide rate but I will point out that they have a very popular forest named after the act and on almost any given day you'll find someone or the shell of themselves they left behind.
I bet blue would win the global "favorite colour" contest. If everyone was asked.
But is it because of the calming effects or because it's now all lit up and they don't want people to witness ?
The problem is the culture itself. Japanese people are generally expected to spend more time at work than most other countries, including America. They have little pay and no time with family. After a while people just want the stress to end.
So why do people say 'I've got the blues'? Ha! Gotcha there didn't I?
How did they come up with that stats? How many people commit suicide at train stations so that it can give a meaningful statistic?
It's relatively common. I've been on at least four or five trains here in Japan that were seriously delayed because of this, and it also causes a ripple effect of delays.
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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.
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)
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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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.
