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.
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)
I though the same, unless the space in between is used for communal green like tree planting, otherwise it doesn't really make sense
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They're allotments not homes! https://brightvibes.com/2357/en/the-story-behind-the-unique-oval-community-gardens-of-copenhagen
The article states that “Owners we’re free to position their cottages, select the surrounding hedges, and lay out the interior of their plots.” There are indeed houses/cottages inside the plots.
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I love that it has what appears to be a live border around the boundary of the yard - More privacy, fewer ugly fences!
A circle gives the greatest area in the smallest space. Nice privacy zones.
Looks like hobbits would like to live there. Although I am nearly 2m tall, I self-identity as a hobbit. I do have the feet: 16eeee or European 50+
The headline and most commenters are missing the point. It gives equal public access to each and every lot. So you can interact with any number of neighbors but still have your own...
Ok, math lesson. I am using a circumference of 16. So whatever your unit of measure it doesn't matter if this is inches, meters, miles, kilometers, or whatever. If the circumference of a circle is 16. Then the radius, ( half the diameter) is 2.55. To get the area it is 3.14XrXr. 3.14 is pi. The area is. 20.417. If you take that 16. And make it a square it ends up being 4x4. Which = 16. So ( I'm going to use feet) the area of the circle is 20.417square feet, while the square is only 16 square feet. So yes the border being round gives you more room. BUT, most of these are actually ovals, so it's a bit of a cheat. Consider this: that same 16, could be 2x6. Which equals 12. So a Much smaller lot could have exactly the same linear length border. I hope this makes sense.
https://www.odditycentral.com/architecture/the-unique-oval-community-gardens-of-copenhagen.html
This link shows you residential buildings...wowie, what a city!
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Not sure about saving space, BUT, it does give identity/uniqueness compared to perfect rectangles next to each other.
Well, architect needs to work on their trigonometry a little more. Packing industry realized looooong ago, round shapes are not the best use of space. I can easily see a great area that has no use at all, between houses. I don't think that empty area is used for any purpose at all. If there were walkways etc, than it might be a good idea, maybe, as a dog walking, jogging etc area. As it is now, with tight gaps between fence bushes, it looks completely useless to me.
Many fotos on this link to see residential area...turbo-charged Danish villages/cities!
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A lot of comments about where are all the cars and driveways. Don't they ride a lot of bikes in Denmark? Maybe that's it. I don't know, just trying to figure it out too.
Indeed and there is probably a lot somewhere outside the photo
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I don't know about the space thing but I love the idea that all these yards have gardens.
No one has a driveway or a car? This is a really inefficient design, look at all that unused space.
They're not for residential use, their gardens for city people
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So, who has to mow in-between the ovals? How do they drive to their garage? Seems like a lot more wasted, unused space. . . people actually bought into this?
These are not year round homes. These are garden allotments that also have garden houses for a getaway weekend.
I agree! Seams like there is a lot of extra space that isn't being used. Who maintains that part of the neighborhood?
WHO does the mowing outside the hedges???? Looks like a nightmare to me :-(
I want to know who mows the grass in between the properties? What a waste.
Garden allotments:https://www.odditycentral.com/architecture/the-unique-oval-community-gardens-of-copenhagen.html
Where do the cars go? How do you get to the centre house? This isn't a real property, is it? It's a miniature representation. Looks like terrain building.
I see all that mown grass and think lack of diversity. Long grass would be better to encourage animals and birds. Make a few ponds. Trees in the gaps would be even better.
The Naerum suburban district of Copenhagen, in Denmark: In 1948, 40 oval allotment gardens, each measuring approximately 25 × 15 m, were laid out on a rolling lawn, between public housing on one side and more traditional allotments on the other. Owners were free to position their cottages, select the surrounding hedges, and lay out the interior of their plots, Seventy later, and the oval gardens of Naerum are still one of the most beautiful attractions in the Danish capital.
https://brightvibes.com/2357/en/the-story-behind-the-unique-oval-community-gardens-of-copenhagen oval-garde...44f9c.jpeg 
Just north of Lyngby. Look for "De Runde Haver". It's close by me, but I've never visited it.
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This was done by Frank Lloyd Wright in Usonia as well... I forget the reasoning, but 99pi did an episode about it. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/usonia/
Why would you need a driveway for a non-residential garden allotment? You Hop on your bike to get there
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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.
