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.
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...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????
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...Yes...because the greedy companies seem to not want to solve issues. Doesnt make money maybe!
Load More Replies...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.
proof that countries can work together to successfully avert ecological disaster
Unfortunately, it is not going as well as planned, and only 4 millions of hectares out of a 100 have been planted. Hopefully they will pull it through.
Then they can keep planting trees northward and encroach back onto the Sahara.
Imagine driving on the road one night, and seeing glowing roots in air
really would feel like living in a christmas movie
Load More Replies...You are indeed correct. While it has been confirmed that the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry did experiment with painting reindeer's antlers and fur with reflective paint to alert drivers way back in 2014, the accompanying photo is a hoax. "The photo used in the post is not real – it's an illustration, made using 3D software by visual designer Vasjen Katro. T"
Load More Replies...Haha you beat me to it by 3 hours! I just left that comment and scrolled down and saw yours 😂! Great minds think alike!!!
Load More Replies...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.
I wouldn't call that simple. More work, more expense, custom to each installation, and just additional light pollution/noise. Not to mention that without the shades of a traditional stoplight, this is certainly visible from the side, which would confuse intersecting traffic.
Load More Replies...As a tall person who has to duck to see if the light changed (roof of car blocking my view), I support this!
But no-one will believe you, if you suggest it now!
Load More Replies...Not an outstanding assumption to make for 1.3 billion people
Load More Replies...Why do I never see pictures of paved roads in India? I swear this is the first one I've seen. The pictures I usually see make me forget it is in fact a developed country. The travel shows I've seen don't show the parts like this picture either. What are the trying to make us believe?
I see them from time to time and it's really pretty. It's mostly in Lyon (where Ememem is from) but also in Paris, Sète, Turin, Milan, Barcelona, Madrid, Aberdeen, Leipzig and Stavanger (according to Wikipedia)
Genial! Je passe par Lyon en Mars, j'espère en voir!
Load More Replies...I have a hoodie that says "I am banksy" and I've never worn it- I probably should
Load More Replies...Amazing! I love that they thought about how to be inclusive here. What a great project.
Oh my, this is so wonderful. What a special, one of a kind keepsake! Every momma deserves the opportunity to see their unborn child growing inside 🥰
When my mother was pregnant with my youngest brother (1975), I can remember asking her if she was going to have a boy or a girl and she said it was still one of life’s mysteries.
Load More Replies...This is truly sweet and amazing--what a special gift for mothers!
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.
Or you could decorated a tree in your yard if you have one. Does not have to be indoors.
I think that's a fantastic sentiment but I just moved to London this year and there are two obstacles here - one is that flats (at least closer to the centre) are tiny, so most people don't have a yard. Two is that December is very cold, rainy, and windy so it's difficult to decorate and celebrate outdoors even if you have a tree in your yard. So I think this company is definitely doing the next best thing in terms of replanting the trees - but that idea could definitely work somewhere with milder winter weather!
Load More Replies...I've heard about this before. I love the idea. My tree this year was my most favorite tree ever. Taking it down and throwing it to the curb actually hurt my heart a bit. They are such a focal point in the house for several weeks and then they get thrown out. Bravo to these places that don't trash the trees!
Let the trees live!!! Retire this Christmas tradition; Jesus would like it. Decorate live trees outside.
Sadly these trees are not native to the UK and forests and forests of them are not beneficial to UK wildlife or the environment in general. Besides which forests of a single species of tree are not natural anyway. They are known as plantations, and of themselves are not beneficial either.
Lemme guess - you have to exit through the gift shop in the r****m.
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.
I'm pretty sure these are the only things that get cooked alive apart from clams and such but those aren't exactly sentient.
Load More Replies...I hope you are including research animals who are tortured for as long as they are useful and then killed
Load More Replies...While we're at it, can we just make eating octopuses illegal? They have the intelligence of 4 year old kids
Every kill should be done as quickly, cleanly, painlessly and with as little trauma as possible, regardless of the entity's species. Even if I have to kill an ant, I do it as quickly as possible.
We always gave our cattle a bucket of grain and shot them in the brain while they ate. Dying happy and oblivious seems like the best way to go. Kind of a way to thank them. Far better than being eaten alive like in nature.
Load More Replies...I have a lot of satisfaction when I see people being choked when they eat octopus alive. Plus point if it kills them.
The video with that girl crying because she was hurt by a live octopus she was trying to eat is very satisfying!!! I have no empathy for her! She deserved it
Load More Replies...I am not condoning boiling any of these but this law only exists because people feel guilty because they have to do the actual killing and they think about it while its happening. The UK is one of the world's top pork consumers of the world and the intelligence of hogs is pretty well documented. The typical slaughter process is to either stun the animal with an electrical baton or carbon dioxide. While its still alive, its throat is slit to bleed out, put on hook, and sent to a water bath to scald the hair off. Due to the pure volume of animals that have to be processed, it is not uncommon for the hog to finally die from the live boiling. I went to a rural HS that had us all work a day in the local plant to see if it was something we'd like to do. I'm not a vegetarian so I have no moral high ground to claim but its hypocritical to only outlaw something because you don't want to watch.
This was brilliant of your school to do. It would be beneficial for everyone to do this for a day. Meat-eater or vegetarian, we should all be aware of where our food comes from and what the processes are.
Load More Replies...I was 11 years old when I first saw how crabs were cooked. I haven't eaten one from that day to this.
"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.
I visited there once. It is amazing, but they don't let you touch the colors.
Load More Replies...I wonder how many are highly toxic and only rare because they're banned...
But how do you protect it from degrading? The colors are usually a result of some chemical reaction in plants or animals, which means it's relatively new and complex (even minerals like to get their interactive freak on in the presence of time). Any source of interaction, be it change in temperature, light exposure, whatever, will degrade it. It might be better to create a library describing the processes of "how it's made" and the molecular/atomic structure. Still cool though :)
This is assuming they don't have that information along with the samples. Maybe they have both?
Load More Replies...It would be nice to have a book or article with all those pigments and their components. It will surely be interesting.
I bet I could spend days in there with my partner and she still wouldn't be able to find just the right shade of blue :)
This library is integral to both archeologists and art historians. I heard about it from a documentary on an egyptologist 's find of a tomb belonging to a trader. He was able to help determine its age by comparing his find to various samples of mummy brown. They've done gas chromatography and other similar treatments to develop a database to compare against so they don't have to expose the colors to the environment as often. You can show up with your supposed Tang dynasty pottery and they can visually compare the colors versus what it should look like. If its close, you can then decide to do a lab test of your own piece and see if it matches at a microscopic or molecular level.
Sorry But this is wrong, the shortest International bridge is between Spain and Portugal. 61cc5bdee2...f-jpeg.jpg
after a precious BP post, I can't unsee the 'meow' in homeowner. Help!
Every so-called cat-owner knows, it's really the one that says 'meow' that is the homeowner. (You can buy a sign reading, 'The house is the cat's, we just pay the mortgage.') I'm sorry Calyfan, there is no cure for this problem.
Load More Replies...So they need passport to enter their own backyard? What about taxes? Voting?
He probably has to keep his cheese on one side and his guns on the other, or he might be in trouble.
This is close to my home in the Thousand Islands! The owners are super fun and always wave and acknowledge when we go by on the boat!
And yet you're not supposed to paint your bedroom blue because it promotes depression
Load More Replies...They use blue lights in some public toilets in the UK, but that's to stop drug users finding a vein...
They trialed this in Scotland by replacing street lights with blue lights, antisocial behavior and depression levels dropped almost immediately. Plus it makes the city look spectacular at night.
How do we implement such a program in the US to prevent random shootings?
Wonder what would be the outcome if they study the effects of a healthy work-life-balance...
I live in the "richest, greatest country on Earth" and I can't even imagine a railway company spending a single penny on something like this. In America we're lucky railway companies even still exist.
I wonder what the study showed about increase in migraines. Blue can be a very heavy migraine trigger.
Interesting. For me reds are triggers. Especially bright or flashing reds.
Load More Replies...Jeez, what color lights were they using before?? I-can't-go-on-magenta? Make-it-stop-yellow?
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.
Photographer - Kristian Laine. @yup.that.exists maybe include actual names in your headings.
Did you get happy slug fishy with giant mouth smiling too?
Load More Replies..."OOOOOOh, let's name the species, the species, the species Let's name the species that live in the sea There's porifera, coelenterata, hydrozoa, scyphozoa Anthozoa, ctenophora, bryozoas, three Mollusca, gastropoda, arthropoda, echinoderma Tuck in the chordata and some fish like you and me"
I wish this could have been found when Henry Mancini was still alive. His Pink Panther theme is a classic. I wonder what his Pink Manta theme would have sounded like?
For God's sake make it protected. We human beings will try to do something to it, like catch it, thus killing it, and put it on display.
Wait, you can read books in Minecraft? Sorry, I've never played. Mostly Nintendo games and point-and-click adventures on Steam.
Minecraft experts: Isn't it easy for some griefer to destroy some or all of this fairly quickly in a fire?
Nope you can force a gamemode on the players entering the server so they won't be able to touch a thing then the book might be displayed for the player using ingame tools such as command blocks
Load More Replies...Soon Americans will have to get their own Mincraft library card at the rate the GOP and liberals are banning books.
We have the same problem here in Sweden with our regime banning and confiscating books :(
Load More Replies...What kind of censored books should we think of? I can only think of Mein Kampf.
Why is this #11 when iit should be near the top of the page. This is an amazing thing that was done, I've actually opened the world in minecraft and wandered around the place it's quite amazing.
Hopefully people who do this in censoring countries will not be tracked
Its actually made out of mushrooms seed hulls, and organic glue (think hooves and hides after butchering). Once you're buried, the mushrooms do their thing and the box goes away too. The coffin material was originally used to make organic insulation for homes and the inventors altered the recipe to make it more dense so it could be carried during a funeral. Its like the difference between styrofoam and a plastic toothbrush - made from the same thing but the toothbrush has less air involved.
Load More Replies...yes...let the earth reclaim me...after all, is decay not simply an extant form of life? we are decomposing, even now, and we must all eventually succumb to the soil...
As we lose our life and decompose, when buried in such a way as this, we give our life to nature, it's rather beautiful in a morbid way.
Load More Replies...After all the mushrooms I’ve eaten in my life, this would even the score.
The rule that we need to be in a box is very stupid anyway. No mushroom box and no coffin would be equally as effective.
That's what I thought. For thousands of years we used shrouds. Just pieces of cloth, no wood work required.
Load More Replies...It is much better since cremation releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. You can look it up and verify it.
Load More Replies...If you're buried in a coffin, that obviously yes, this is faster. Coffins don't decompose quickly. Cremating doesn't decompose you at all, so you can't compare the speed.
Load More Replies..."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.
Someone should rescue it. Otherwise it's Killer Whale (Orca) lunch.
Load More Replies...King Penquin with Leucism, a condition where melanin is only partially lost and some parts of the penguin's body retain colour.
He should go swimming together with the pink manta ray. What a rare and pretty pair!
As said about the pink manta, please protect this little guy from us.
The turtle reminds me of the grumpy old man who used to live next door
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.
Sending free stuff to people? ThAt'S cOmMuNiSm! /s 🤦♀️
Load More Replies...Wow. A government who actually cares for their people. I wonder what that's like.
People bashing the United States again. I received over $3000 in unsolicited covid relief checks. There was plenty more relief available for those in need.
Yes there was. A small business owner I know got a $165,000 loan that he didn't have to pay back as long as he used it to keep employees on the payroll.
Load More Replies...North Koreans probably barely even see this much food, especially of this quality, in their life time.
Load More Replies...Exactly. How many people are in that family? Is it enough for all?
Load More Replies...In comparison, the "care package" sent by the British government was insultingly bad, some of the food was even mouldy. If I recall correctly, there was a BP article about it at the time and people were posting pictures of what they had received, it was shocking. A family of four receiving a (supposedly) week's worth of food consisting of two pieces of fruit, a loaf of bread, two tins of sardines, one packet of pasta and a 2L bottle of water.
I received those packages and, like most things, the worst of them got the media attention. Most of them were just perfectly fine. Not amazing, but that's fair enough. It was supposed to help, not replace.
Load More Replies...That's my question, that duck is the mascot for the University of Oregon. It's got his green & yellow hat and everything.
Load More Replies...Did the Canadian Govt give any assistance to its people?
Load More Replies...Well, that's the first time I have seen someone putting a wool product to use in order to cool down.
Off topic, but actually, clothes made of Merino wool will cool you down nicely. 🙂
Load More Replies...Then the yarn gets wet. And you know what happens when the sun comes back? It dries!
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)
juice...thanks so much for providing that info AND the source. You Rock!👍
Load More Replies...I do this in Minecraft. So glad it actually happens in the real world.
It also doesnt kill the tree, since they only are harvesting the carefully curated branches from the top
It takes plants a lot of energy to grow a big root system. If they can leave the roots in place, it's much more efficient!
Load More Replies...Japan doesn't have a lot of space for timber farms, so they figured this out. Necessity is the mother...
Daisugi is really about the straightness of the timber not the amount of land used. Also, 80% of Japan is forest, because too hilly for farming or cities... most of that is fine for timber growing.
Load More Replies...No ducking way! That quacked me up seeing his shoes! Hope he didn't fowl out. (ok I'm done)
I could not stop watching the clip of this. It's ducktacular! Highly recommend for maximum hilarity.
If this duck can run a marathon with those hips and short stride what's our excuse again?!?
I'm not sure about yours, but I don't want to be beaten by a duck.
Load More Replies...Yeah, but why just shades of black, white and gray?
Load More Replies...It's just a Dracaena species, there's dozens that look similar (e.g. Dracaena draco a popular houseplant). They split branches after flowering, so those in the picture flowered maybe 4x in the last 150years. So the Canary Islands, Morocco, Cabo Verde, and especially Socotra (google!) are other places where you can see far more.
Load More Replies...This makes it sound like they are that old, but obviously it's just a plant species that hasn't changed since the prehistoric age. That is not rare at all. Also these are not 'found' 'alive and well', they've been known to exist there for ages and there's no reason to assume they would stop being alive and well.
...Days later some DAMN KID comes along and knocks them all down for his Twitter Post!
I'm one of those people that is impervious to cold. Don't own a coat. Was in the Arctic Circle in winter in a t-shirt. I'm just weird like that. But the coldest I ever remember feeling was somewhere up on Mount Kilimanjaro as a kid in a tent at night, and my little nostrils froze up.
I wish Google Maps would have a clearer view of the environment. Imagine discovering new plants just by viewing a map.
It would be fun and interesting, until people wanted to go and visit, and it got trampled on and spoilt.
Load More Replies...Yes. That's why Japan is AWESOME!! *says someone who is dying to visit Japan and maybe live there for a few years*
Load More Replies...Wowwwww! The patience alone one must have to create this massive beast is amazing!
They do this every year and create some truly mind boggling sculptures.
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.
It isn't really a zipper because it doesn't say "YKK" on the pull tab!
I had an Imagewriter II printer with a color ribbon way back in the day, its output was less than impressive.
Load More Replies...Epic!!!! (duh, reread the title....owe it to the 1 am Bored panda browsing) I used oatmeal boxes.
The Story: https://www.diyphotography.net/a-beer-can-pinhole-camera-captures-8-years-worth-of-sunrises-and-sunsets/
Artist Regina Valkenborgh made a pinhole camera from a simple beer can and he took a solargraph that's believed to be the longest exposure photo ever taken. The camera recorded the sun's path across the sky for eight years, capturing nearly 3,000 sunrises and sunsets.
I cannot find a definitive answer to that, but it seems likely that they are the sunlight glinting off of some fixed object like another building or a flagpole, etc. when the sun is at a very specific angle.
Load More Replies...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.
Is this any different from forcing people to wear seatbelts or helmets? It's strictly for their own health, and the risk far outweighs the luxury. Speaking from an American perspective, I think it's prudent to have more "nanny" laws from a nation with universal healthcare; if people's healthcare is being paid by the public taxes, then it's in the public interest to put a stop to needlessly reckless habits that cost them money. To put it bluntly, it actually IS the government's business.
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