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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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Caro Caro 4 years ago
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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DUN DUN (she/her) 4 years ago
Imagine driving on the road one night, and seeing glowing roots in air
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Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Amazing! I love that they thought about how to be inclusive here. What a great project.
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Gaya Knust 4 years ago
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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John Smith 4 years ago
I think it says something about my brain that is exactly where I went with this too.
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Nikole Landelius 4 years ago
Can I throw these at people in Walmart that park the cart and walk halfway down the isle to find what they need? Or maybe the ones that decide to have a conversation with someone they know, subsequently blocking both sides of the isle. Perhaps the ones that wonder around like they have no idea why they are there or what they are looking for but will get in everyone’s way regardless. Can I please??
Marc Lauzon 4 years ago
Can only imagine police training having full course on how to curve, fork, and throw fastballs. Their corporate baseball faceoff must be something.
Grant Barke 4 years ago
If they throw one at you, you throw one at them. That'll confuse the ACABs.
Jods 4 years ago
Good job they don’t have to rely on me to chuck one. I’m rubbish at throwing.
New Everywhere 4 years ago
It's really amazing the things we can come up with when humanity is actually considered.
Dale MacDonald 4 years ago
They were using this idea to track Stupid people ! But they ran out of paint .
Katilynn Bobo 4 years ago
So…a…paintball? 🥴😂 But no, seriously wish they would use this tactic more!
368 SY Sci Mariyam Mirza 4 years ago
This is when a cop is literate knows to fix the person and not kill the person ❤️👍
EdithfrancinecarterBarefield Barefield Barefield 4 years ago
Yep at least there are no deaths!
David Butler 4 years ago
Proper Japanese: 防犯用カラーボール Bōhan-yō karā-bōru "color-ball used for anti-crime".
Caroline Overill 4 years ago
instead of throwing it by hand he ought to have one of those things you throw balls for dogs with
Sterling Hill 4 years ago
Flee a crime scene - unless they are throwing balls full of fleas… I’m confused
Martha Higgins 4 years ago
Flea and flee do not mean the same thing, and you have chosen the wrong spelling for the thing you mean.
Microwaved Robot 4 years ago
I read about this regarding protests, and the protesters were 'shot' with paint balls, so that they could be easily spotted and arrested after the event.
Steven Meyer 4 years ago (edited)
Chap Japanese policeman don’t use guns in fact firearms are outlawed in the country for anyone other than the military. They have all kinds of ways to stop traffic, when I lived over there in the 80s they used to carry a long stick approximately 6 foot long. It was battery charged and if they told you stop and you didn’t they were touch your car with a stick and shirt at your electrical system.
Joe Blow 4 years ago
Police carry guns in Japan. They just very rarely even draw one. Also citizens can have guns. It's just insanely hard to do. Most would be rural people who need rifles to hunt wild boar. In fact someone in Saitama just killed a doctor with one this past week. I've never seen or even heard of a pole that shorts a car's electronics.
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K. Kerry Kozak 4 years ago
I have been thinking of a paint ball gun for the same reason for the vandals in my area :-).
Geo. Tirebiter 4 years ago
when I first saw these as a visiting cop in Japan I thought it would not work in the US because we would use it to blast co-workers or their cars as a joke.
Julia Leatherbarrow 4 years ago
The Japanese are so innovative, much better than firing a gun at it!
Jane Dorothy Warner 4 years ago
Do they have to be trained to throw them? Because I know I am a lousy shot who would be just as likely to hit an innocent bystander :(
Linda Robinett 4 years ago
Note the stance. Japan is a nation of baseball players. I can see the pitchers on the police baseball team being very valuable as officers.
Türkan Ateş 4 years ago
I dreamed of something like that with an alarm noise to put in your bag, so you can press the alarm button and catch him following the noise?
Joanna Werman 4 years ago
I came up with this years ago. Give us all a paint gun and we'll show you who needs policing. But we have to pay for the paint so we don't just waste it being assholes to our friends.
Michelle C. 4 years ago
But what if they have bad aim and accidentally throw it on like an innocent old lady or something? And then the police tackle her.
Tiffany Wilson 4 years ago
Can I use this on vehicles that don't use their blinkers and cut me off in traffic?
Bob Standen 4 years ago
In Victoria, Australia the first shot a policeman makes is either a head or heart shot. Even for minor crimes.
Irishwoman abroad 4 years ago
The spelling on this page is atrocious!! The word is "flee", you twit.
Winter Eleven 4 years ago
GENIUS I NEED YELLOW ONES for the cars that speed up at sidewalks and those who don't use blinkers
George Gameston 4 years ago
Whereas in the Netherlands, shops simply use wall mounted DNA sprays...
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Um isn't that a shopkeeper not a cop? And I sapprove this method. Dye them! Mwahaha.
Arbuckle McShitteé 4 years ago
Likely better than the American way: shoot them 50 times in the back, handcuff & beat the corpse, then claim "I saw a knife" that - upon further inspection - doesn't exist.
Lisa Greene 4 years ago
If we could only get the US to do this.. It would save many brown people's lives!
Timothy Leung 4 years ago
Imagine US police replace guns with those and turn innocent black persons into orange...
Monday 4 years ago
This isn't actually used by the police, it's used by shopowners. The shop owner chucks the ball at the shoplifter and then the police can track and find them. Can't use a pain ball gun because you might hurt the perp.
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juice 4 years ago
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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Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago (edited)
Epic!!!! (duh, reread the title....owe it to the 1 am Bored panda browsing) I used oatmeal boxes.
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King Joffrey 4 years ago
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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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
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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Hermien Greeff 4 years ago
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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Vortex Lazer 4 years ago
This must've taken quite an effort to make, even the details are all there. I love it!
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Chucky Cheezburger 4 years ago
And also home to several Great Old Ones and other cosmic horrors...
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Mark Howell 4 years ago
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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Scott Heap 4 years ago
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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Vortex Lazer 4 years ago
Awe, the ducks are so intricate, being a huge duck lover, I love this!
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Marcellus II 4 years ago
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.
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Ryukei Panda 4 years ago
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?
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marianne eliza 4 years ago
How do you clean it? Everything little thing will get caught in all the nooks and crannies.
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Lance LaRocque 4 years ago
They should also have added these sea slugs can use photosynthesis.
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DUN DUN (she/her) 4 years ago
Please someone tell me that I'm not the only one confused about its practical use
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Chucky Cheezburger 4 years ago
I guess manholes in Romania go to different kinds of places than the ones I have to deal with...
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Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago (edited)
Wait, the f****n Smurfs movie had a whole real town paint their houses blue. For the Smurfs? stepping over the line a bit.
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Tassenküchlein168 4 years ago
It would be really dumb to do something like that. Plants even needs resting time.
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Dasha Slepenkina 4 years ago
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.
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Layne Rodgers 4 years ago
Much like the Himalayan Monks that create beautiful works of art to destroy as to never put value on material items.
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Firstname Lastname 4 years ago
It's the Big Birthday Blowout, for those of you trying to watch it now.
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SomePilot 4 years ago
all comments are - so lemme say, there's someone who made a pencil globe, ill attach the pic/vid ok pencilglob...f6584c.jpg 
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Lydia Dean-Melchior 4 years ago
Cruel. Fish get stressed out easily, and this insensitive cage would certainly do just that.
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Eppe 4 years ago
Another awesome post! I'm gonna try and stick to there inspiring posts, and forget about the negative ones.
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
I'm trying that. It certainly cuts down on browsing time and unnecessary negativity. Sometimes curiosity wins though.
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Petra, princess of Brigid 4 years ago
There's a lot of spelling errors, but other than that, I really enjoyed this post!
EdithfrancinecarterBarefield Barefield Barefield 4 years ago
Great and informative information
Kathleen Greenawalt 4 years ago
interesting and clever !!! Please keep it going. Sincerely, a pleased panda peeper
OhWoooooooord 4 years ago
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!
S. Tor Storm 4 years ago
More like this and less of the anti-science blue-haired trans-vaccinated crap you usually spew
Kathy Davis 4 years ago
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.
FOX_MULDER 4 years ago
Apart from the spelling errors and factual liberties, I guess this was fine.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
More of these please. I skip most pages these days because they are so negative.
Don't Look 4 years ago
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.
Eppe 4 years ago
Another awesome post! I'm gonna try and stick to there inspiring posts, and forget about the negative ones.
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
I'm trying that. It certainly cuts down on browsing time and unnecessary negativity. Sometimes curiosity wins though.
Load More Replies... Petra, princess of Brigid 4 years ago
There's a lot of spelling errors, but other than that, I really enjoyed this post!
EdithfrancinecarterBarefield Barefield Barefield 4 years ago
Great and informative information
Kathleen Greenawalt 4 years ago
interesting and clever !!! Please keep it going. Sincerely, a pleased panda peeper
OhWoooooooord 4 years ago
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!
S. Tor Storm 4 years ago
More like this and less of the anti-science blue-haired trans-vaccinated crap you usually spew
Kathy Davis 4 years ago
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.
FOX_MULDER 4 years ago
Apart from the spelling errors and factual liberties, I guess this was fine.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
More of these please. I skip most pages these days because they are so negative.
Don't Look 4 years ago
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.
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