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

Its actually made out of mushrooms seed hulls, and organic glue (think hooves and hides after butchering). Once you're buried, the mushrooms do their thing and the box goes away too. The coffin material was originally used to make organic insulation for homes and the inventors altered the recipe to make it more dense so it could be carried during a funeral. Its like the difference between styrofoam and a plastic toothbrush - made from the same thing but the toothbrush has less air involved.

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

yes...let the earth reclaim me...after all, is decay not simply an extant form of life? we are decomposing, even now, and we must all eventually succumb to the soil...

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

As we lose our life and decompose, when buried in such a way as this, we give our life to nature, it's rather beautiful in a morbid way.

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

The rule that we need to be in a box is very stupid anyway. No mushroom box and no coffin would be equally as effective.

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

That's what I thought. For thousands of years we used shrouds. Just pieces of cloth, no wood work required.

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

Caitlyn Doughty squeals in happiness. Although I want to become compost, that's pretty neat too.

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

It is much better since cremation releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. You can look it up and verify it.

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

If you're buried in a coffin, that obviously yes, this is faster. Coffins don't decompose quickly. Cremating doesn't decompose you at all, so you can't compare the speed.

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

Why not just bury the body without coffin like Muslims do? Isn't it easier?

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

Agreed but I'm guessing a step too far for most western people. As long as you bury me with an acorn or a willowseed in my hand I would love this.

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

Do I have to be in a coffin? Or even cremated? I don't mind being buried alive. Give me one of those Tibetan burials where animals eat me. The least I could do after all the animals, seafood, vegetables, fungi etc. I've eaten over my lifetime

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

Not truly a first, pine box coffins disintegrate readily, it’s the embalming chemicals which cause the issues

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

I like this. I either want this or to be cremated. Being in a metal tomb for all eternity is NOT what I want.

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

Although I too prefer the idea of giving my body back to nature, once I don't need it anymore, having it preserved might aid to future history research, you never know. But, as, Demi Zwaan says, would you even notice, once you're gone?

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

Yes, but with all chemical preservative in food today, it take more time for your body to decompose (I know, it's a legend, not proven scientifically ;), I just say it for fun)

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

Looks expensive. Is cremation worse for the environment? Will laws actually allow the ground to be used again after you rot?

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

weirdly enough, i would actually like this alot! i dont need my body when im dead, so why not let the eathe havve it?

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

These are privately owned lots right???? Can you imagine coming across a pile of bones on your walk?????

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

Um, in the USA, it's illegal to be buried in the ground without an underground vault. This would never decompose in the USA.

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

Is it legal? Great idea but all of the legal trappings around burial might make it difficult to use.

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

I assume that this is buried, otherwise the ground would be littered with bones.

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

I love this idea! Got to find your woodland burial site first ...

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

Keep that thought in your head if you are a wild mushroom picker...

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

Well, okay. Your body is going to decay sooner or later anyway, so I don't see how this makes a lot of difference.

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

I think it should be banned to use formaldehyde. Toxic to earth. Many products being made from mushrooms now. A company is using them to make natural surfboards! Get away from plastics, toxic glues and fiberglass from our oceans

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

hehhehe, white button mushroom looks like styrofoam inside :) compress numbers of those together and you can shape any object

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

My FIL is buried in a decomposing coffin. I think this is quite common now.

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

Can I be buried in that Pet Cemetery? I would like to come back and haunt the living

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

My coffin is effectively like this anyway. I'm Jewish so I won't be getting embalmed and I just get put in a simple pine box, not even any metal nails included anywhere so I'm kinda gonna benefit nature. Still bloody terrified though.

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

Uses more resources than necessary. Just fire up the old wood chipper and you could compost humans much faster

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

I'm adding this into the list of possible considerations for when I die. (which hopefully won't be soon but still, I'd like my body to go to some good use for the environment)

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

Or you could just leave the body in the woods without a coffin...

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

Surely a normal burial (land or sea) would do it just as quick?

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

Land: no. Coffins don't decompose very quickly. Sea: yeah, but is that even an option?

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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

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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