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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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"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 (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, in the US the cops separate the body and soul.

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

Not for people like me who have terrible coordination, and would probably end up hitting some poor little old innocent lady by mistake.

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

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??

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Marc Lauzon
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can only imagine police training having full course on how to curve, fork, and throw fastballs. Their corporate baseball faceoff must be something.

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

If they throw one at you, you throw one at them. That'll confuse the ACABs.

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

I’ve wanted to do this for years to mark bad driver cars. Different color for type of driving offense.

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

It's really amazing the things we can come up with when humanity is actually considered.

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

flea a crime scene? damn that sounds like an itchy situation. >.>

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Dale MacDonald
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They were using this idea to track Stupid people ! But they ran out of paint .

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Katilynn Bobo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So…a…paintball? 🥴😂 But no, seriously wish they would use this tactic more!

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

This is when a cop is literate knows to fix the person and not kill the person ❤️👍

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

The police worldwide should have this instead of shooting down people. Rather novel way to stop criminals.

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

Will the paint wash off, or do they leave a big mess everywhere?

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

Although what if they miss and hit the wrong target?

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

Proper Japanese: 防犯用カラーボール Bōhan-yō karā-bōru "color-ball used for anti-crime".

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

instead of throwing it by hand he ought to have one of those things you throw balls for dogs with

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

These are behind the register at convenience stores in Japan. Even if the employee misses and hits the door the splatter will cover the suspect.

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

Flee a crime scene - unless they are throwing balls full of fleas… I’m confused

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

Flea and flee do not mean the same thing, and you have chosen the wrong spelling for the thing you mean.

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

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.

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

Paintball guns would be more accurate. BUT nonetheless great idea.

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

All that's needed is a strong arm and good aim - I'd be hopeless.

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

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.

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

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

I have been thinking of a paint ball gun for the same reason for the vandals in my area :-).

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

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.

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

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 :(

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

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.

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

Reminds me of how it is with the tags on clothes that they have to remove with that special thingy 🤔

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

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?

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

Yes, but I think the headline writer meant "flee." Look it up.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Can I use this on vehicles that don't use their blinkers and cut me off in traffic?

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

In Victoria, Australia the first shot a policeman makes is either a head or heart shot. Even for minor crimes.

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

The spelling on this page is atrocious!! The word is "flee", you twit.

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

GENIUS I NEED YELLOW ONES for the cars that speed up at sidewalks and those who don't use blinkers

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

Whereas in the Netherlands, shops simply use wall mounted DNA sprays...

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

Uhm, police do not wear aprons. Not even in Japan. That is a a paint ball being thrown by a store keeper, not police.

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

Um isn't that a shopkeeper not a cop? And I sapprove this method. Dye them! Mwahaha.

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

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.

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

Why not just shoot them? that’s what American Cops would do.

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

If we could only get the US to do this.. It would save many brown people's lives!

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

Imagine US police replace guns with those and turn innocent black persons into orange...

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

Not enough budget to give the paint ball gun with?

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

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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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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