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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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.
I think it says something about my brain that is exactly where I went with this too.
Load More Replies...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??
Can only imagine police training having full course on how to curve, fork, and throw fastballs. Their corporate baseball faceoff must be something.
If they throw one at you, you throw one at them. That'll confuse the ACABs.
Good job they don’t have to rely on me to chuck one. I’m rubbish at throwing.
It's really amazing the things we can come up with when humanity is actually considered.
They were using this idea to track Stupid people ! But they ran out of paint .
So…a…paintball? 🥴😂 But no, seriously wish they would use this tactic more!
This is when a cop is literate knows to fix the person and not kill the person ❤️👍
Yep at least there are no deaths!
Proper Japanese: 防犯用カラーボール Bōhan-yō karā-bōru "color-ball used for anti-crime".
instead of throwing it by hand he ought to have one of those things you throw balls for dogs with
Flee a crime scene - unless they are throwing balls full of fleas… I’m confused
Flea and flee do not mean the same thing, and you have chosen the wrong spelling for the thing you mean.
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.
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.
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.
Load More Replies...I have been thinking of a paint ball gun for the same reason for the vandals in my area :-).
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.
The Japanese are so innovative, much better than firing a gun at it!
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 :(
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.
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?
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.
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.
Can I use this on vehicles that don't use their blinkers and cut me off in traffic?
In Victoria, Australia the first shot a policeman makes is either a head or heart shot. Even for minor crimes.
The spelling on this page is atrocious!! The word is "flee", you twit.
GENIUS I NEED YELLOW ONES for the cars that speed up at sidewalks and those who don't use blinkers
Whereas in the Netherlands, shops simply use wall mounted DNA sprays...
Um isn't that a shopkeeper not a cop? And I sapprove this method. Dye them! Mwahaha.
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.
If we could only get the US to do this.. It would save many brown people's lives!
Imagine US police replace guns with those and turn innocent black persons into orange...
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.
Load More Replies...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.