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
It's absolutely amazing and sad at the same time. That the earths people produces that much plastic waste and that this amazing woman decided to upcycle it into something very useful.
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Kenyan Woman...surely if you post a great achievement you can use a person's actual name.... Seems to be the trend with this whole article...."that other city; Underwater photographer; French Artist paving surgeon." ???
Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old Materials Engineer. Matee is the founder of Nairobi-based Gjenge Makers, which has founded a novel way of converting plastic waste into sustainable materials. She has created lightweight and low-cost bricks made of recycled plastic with sand—a stronger material than concrete. Matee recently won the Young Champion of the Earth 2020 award, the United Nations’ highest environmental honour.
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I’ve said for years that, “It will always take a woman to get anything done but a man can’t handle hearing what is the truth”. Case in point. God Bless her. WHY is she not being in the fore front AND being funded????
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While I applaud her. The thing that bothers me is fire. Firefighters are already being exposed to deadly fumes when plastics burn - vinyl siding creates deadly toxic smoke its a huge issue potentially impacting thousands. Burn units and first responders have had to take specialized training when dealing with victims. Plastics in clothing will melt right onto the skin unlike natural fibers.
They're using them for paving stones so they are probably outdoors.
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Yes...because the greedy companies seem to not want to solve issues. Doesnt make money maybe!
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Yes! She is one smart lady. 🥇 See a need/problem and create a solution!
In the UK we use recycled high density plastic instead of concrete all the time for things like fence footings (things where you primarily need weight, not strength). But I've never seen pavement made of this material. It's tough as nails, but I wonder if the surface might break down in the sun.
The U.S. tried making pavement out of recycled plastic generations ago. My first car, a Thunderbird, was destroyed thanks to the government's failure to foresee the consequences. (It got slick as it was worn flat.)
The plastic bricks are still laying in your garden/ nature. How is that good? I dont understand. Can someone explain?
I think you're missing the part where it says "stronger than concrete". Rather than clog up landfills, the plastic is recycled and given a new use. https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/nzambi-matee-kenyas-plastic-waste-building-bricks/
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lego town sounds really useful way to reuse plastic actually
This is amazing! I'm going to take a look as wanted to redo my garden. :)
This is absolutely awesome however I can't help but think those bricks are going to be someone else's problem in 50 years and they still won't be breaking down. Don't get me wrong I love this idea and if it helps for a while then that's better than nothing.
If they still won't be breaking down in 50 years, for bricks and paving, that is a good thing!
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That is absolutely amazing!!!! Way to go to do something with all of this plastic!!!
This is really amazing to save the earth and also saves the space which the plastic waste takes it made the most threatening problem the most wonderful solution
Imagine what you could do if you added nubs on one side, and holes on the other, and made them into*** GIANT LEGOS!!*** You could even build houses! Brilliant!!
Kudos to her, but it's just a way of taking the current plastic and putting it in one place. Most of it will get either buried or discarded back into the tips, where it will sit and never rot for thousands of years.
I be want'n one her machines. Anyone in Texas handling the process/product?
This is a fantastic idea and needs to go global, she is brilliant!
She should be the plastic Tzar of the world. Patent the idea and put her feet up!
The only thing I wonder is - plastic is made from oil, paints and other toxins. when plastic decomposes it releases potentially toxic bisphenol A (BPA) and PS oligomer. Heat, sun, oil, traction all cause this. Paints used to print things on bags can contain lead. Wouldn't this leech into the area as these degrade? It's a wonderful idea but I hope it's not thought that this solves the plastic problem. It's the same amount of plastic, just put to better use. She has a terrific smile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zztyd2Xb6i8&t=22s
Alas, it doesn't solve the issue with microplastic... But fantastic success story, nonetheless! Way to go Gjenge!!
let me fix that title for u....Nzambi Matee, a Kenya woman's startup discovered a way to recycle plastic waste into bricks that are stronger than concrete:)
Can we di that here in the US? I hope it catches on ,cuz thats genius!
I want to see a video of how it's done and how the machine works! This is so cool!
Good-on HER!!! Some states incorporate used tires into the pavement of highways...adding like an additional 20 or more years to its durability at LEAST! May she rake in a fortune!!!
With all the discarded plastic in landfills we can now build homes for everyone on this planet and then some.
With all the used plastic in landfills we can now build a home for everyone on this planet and then some!!!
Oh my, they're so beautiful! And I love her smile; it says that she's proud of her accomplishment, as she should be.
This is amazing but I hope it doesn't leach plastics back into the soil and subsequently the water table 🤔
Want to know when and where this will be applied to help save the planet - answer NEVER!
This does bring to light some of the serious consequences of using plastics so heavily in the first place. Plastics have one significant flaw, they cannot be recycled into items whose quality equals that of the original items. It's the reason that food containers can only be made of virgin plastic, purity cannot be guaranteed otherwise. The only real solution is to eliminate the use of plastic anywhere it is not absolutely necessary. If the function of an item can be performed by metal, glass/ceramics, or wood/paper we simply MUST use those alternatives. The long-term challenge of plastics is that 100% of them will end up as environmental pollution eventually in one way or another. If erosion opens up a trash dump from 130 years ago, the consequences are minimal. Metals will corrode, eventually ceramics will erode back into their source minerals, paper will rot into soil organic matter. The plastics which already exist will be a scourge to the environment for thousands of years.
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Yeah I don't think anyone in their right mind wants to build plastic buildings. Just the toxic cancerous material would be terrible.
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)
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.
