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40 Times People Had No Idea What They Were Looking At, But The Internet Knew What It Was Right Away
Interview
All things have a purpose and function. However, some objects are so peculiar, so strange, and so weird that it takes amateur detectives and internet occultists to decipher their meaning. The ‘What Is This Thing’ subreddit is a treasure trove of everyday artifacts whose purpose was lost to the world… until Reddit’s resident Sherlock Holmeses took a look at them and explained exactly what people were looking at.
We’ve collected some of the best examples of odd things, so scroll down, have a look, have a read, and upvote your faves. Let us know in the comments if you learned something new and share the most obscure objects with your pals to test their knowledge.
Be sure to read on for Bored Panda’s interview with one of the subreddit’s moderators. And when you’re done with this list and if you’re still hungry for weird things whose purpose is unclear, then be sure to have a look through our previous posts about strange objects right here, here, as well as here.
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#1
What Is This Thing In My Classroom? Makes Subtle Fan-Like Sounds And Changes Colour On Top
Answer: AV1 is a personal avatar for children suffering from long-term illness, helping them to continue their education and maintain the normality of daily life despite no longer being able to access mainstream education. Through an app, the user can remotely log into the class from their home or hospital. Looking through the robots eyes, the child can watch the lesson, through the robot’s ears they can hear greetings from their friends and they can speak through the robot to interact with the rest of the class.
aLittleKillingJoke 5 years ago
why wasn't the class informed about their additional classmate tho?
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
Most likely because the child isn't ready to be acknowledged yet. There is a certain acclimation process that would need to take place. Besides, if you told a class full of kids that the robot was another child everyone is going to want to be friends with or ask it questions. What's meant to not overwhelm the child could do exactly that, which would make the entire program pointless. It could take months or never before the child is more ready for more integration like actually admitting they're there.
Load More Replies... Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
... or it's your school head spying on you. If it's "in your classroom", it's strange you don't know what pupil it would belong to (even in shared classroom). In the EU you definitely have to know --- you know, data protection, all you say in class is now heard outside so you need to know by whom so you don't "spill the beans".
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#2
What Are These For In An Outdoor Area Of A Hospital?
Answer: These are emergency showers. An affected person (chemical spills, laboratory mishaps, etc) will pull the level on the top and tepid water (OSHA defined between 60F and 100F) will douse the affected from the shower head (above) and boot sprayer (below). The duration of these showers is required to be 15 full minutes at approximately 20 PSI.
Source: I design these systems.
Moriarty2 5 years ago
Yes, but I also want the designer to let us know why in every laboratory I've ever worked in there were no drains below these. Basically if you need to use it you should prepare to ruin the entire building. There has to be some reason not to have a drain? Expense? Upkeep too difficult? No drain able to keep up with water coming out? Please I must know?!?! Lol.
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Molly Block 5 years ago
At my old p.o.s. middle and high schools in backwards Mobile, AL, we NEVER had anything like this for emergencies. The water spigots built into the chemistry desks weren't even hooked up to water. I hated those schools. They were so awful. No air conditioning anywhere, not even a ceiling fan or oscillating desk fan in any classroom, the floor tiles popping up everywhere, old asbestos ceiling tiles falling down, there wasn't even a smoke alarm. Don't even THINK about a carbon monoxide alarm. Just damn awful! Yeah, school in the 80's SUCKED. Thank god now we have OSHA involved, but my old school is still open to students and still has not renovated. Just terrible. Mobile, AL county schools SUCK!
#3
IKEA Coffee Mug, What Is The Thing At The Bottom?
Answer: So water doesn't stay on the bottom if you put the mug in the dishwasher and stops wet mugs suctioning themselves to coasters.
Pretty clever design actually.
Merritt flood 5 years ago
Restaurants have been making glasses like these for a very long time. Fun to ask people if they know what it’s for at dinner out.
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Shelly Bowles 5 years ago
Why is this not industry standard?! I don't own a mug with this little dip in the bottom and I last bought mugs in December!
Joley Farmen 5 years ago
Looks like ceramic. The notch is also made to allow air underneath the dish to bake evenly in a kiln (pottery oven). If that wasn’t there, it could suction, or the glaze could melt and stick to the kiln, and you’d have to break the dish to remove it.
Preeti Rawat 5 years ago
For a second I thought it would be a defected piece until I saw the explanation. Smart indeed.
Shelly Bowles 5 years ago
Why isn't this industry standard? I don't own a single mug with this dip in the base, and I last purchased mugs in December!
According to one of the subreddit’s moderators, there are several reasons why people become amateur detectives online and help others figure out what obscure objects are. The first reason is that interesting items show up and some folks can’t help but get involved. There’s also the “thrill of the chase”—people want to show off their great search skills.
“Many [people] have unique and obscure knowledge and they like to use it. Get enough of them together and they cover most things,” the moderator told Bored Panda.
The mod revealed that it’s very rare for a thing to get posted and for nobody to know what it is. They estimate that under 10 percent of ‘cases’ don’t get solved on the subreddit. “A majority of things are solved within 15 minutes of posting,” the mod added. With over 1.5 million members in the community, it's no wonder that mysteries get solved so quickly.
#4
My Mom And Dad Were Doing Some Landscaping In The Backyard And Found This Weird Slate With Writing Etched Into It. The Months Are Spelled Out And The Year States 1827 But That’s All The Information Here. I Can Send More Pics In Pm. Also, This Was Located In Southern Missouri
Answer: a practice gravestone scrap. Someone who carved gravestones would practice engraving lettering and drawings on this broken piece of stone.
ACE 5 years ago
It does look cool. And quite small, as it is resting on a piece of paper towel. I would polish it up and display it on a small easel like one displays pictures on a table. Or hanging in a shadow box.
Load More Replies... Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
I love it when people find 'Practice' stuff, because so much of it was lost or thrown away. It find this kind of thing fascinating. Goes to show everyone had to practice doing something to get it down.
Nicky Battement 5 years ago
Looks like the oldest ouija board ever made, I'd get out of there if I were you.
Melodious Functavious 5 years ago
It's the first marker from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Richard's Shield)
Stephen Joslyn 5 years ago
A practice piece? I don't buy that, the etching goes off the edge, so it appears that it is a piece of a larger slab. Most artists, or engravers I know don't take the time, effort or expense of doing this, they are skilled enough they lay the pattern out using pencil or chaulk.
chakibleeb 5 years ago
This is over a hundred years old. They did take the time and patience to do it then. We are lazy now. And, yes, it was part of a larger stone. A practice stone.
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#5
Thin Slabs Of Ivory With Days Of The Week On The Top Found In My Closet. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Fabulous antique early Victorian chatelaine aide memoir from mid 1800s. Made of sheets of bone, it would have hung on a lady's chatalaine chain or been kept securely in her pocket and she would have used it to make note and appointments for the week to come. It has 6 pages for the days Monday to Saturday, of course a lady would never have made appointments on a Sunday
Bonnie Osborne 5 years ago
You can sell your Ivory if you can prove that it was purchased before 1990. This clearly is from the Victorian era..so yeah, that is legal to sell. What a cool discovery. I want to know how she made notes on them..
Claire 5 years ago
I just looked it up. They used a pencil, and it was wiped off with a cloth at the end of the week. Stubborn marks could be polished off with a drop of brass cleaner.
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Manu Costil 5 years ago
It has also been used as « carnet de bal » in France - dancing reservation order
Mumof1 5 years ago
Bone is NOT ivory - the two are entirely diffierent. Bone is from the skeleton. Ivory is from the teeth or tusks. These items were made from bone.
Laura Johnston 5 years ago
Bring it to an antique dealer to see what it's worth. Ya never know.
#6
Water Flows From A Culvert Beneath A Trail Into This Circular Pool, Then Continues On Into The Woods. What's The Pool's Purpose?
Answer: Settling pond for erosion control and improving the downstream water for happier fish
varwenea 5 years ago
Smart. Always good to have happy fish. Wouldn't have to summon aquaman to deal with angry fish.
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
I live by the adage 'Nature doesn't make straight lines'. Usually if I see something that's too straight or to perfect of a circle I auto-assume its man made.
Jo Gillean 2 years ago
If you lived in the woods that wood make it easier for getting water instead of trying to get it from the little stream..
Rikke Hackner 5 years ago
Ther is one is Kirstenbosch botanical gardes here in Cape town, South africa. It is called Lady Anne's bath. So tempting on a hot day to jump right in.
mph seti 5 years ago
I would have just said a naiad lives there, but the real answer is good...I suppose.
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
Nobody said a naiad couldn't have decided she liked it and moved in. There's moss on the edges.
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Gregory Crawford 2 years ago
Reminds me of an open sewage lagoon where a homes water waste, kitchen, bathroom etc drains for settlement and cleaner top water runs off. There may be yet another settling pool on further down.
The subreddit has a more serious offshoot on Reddit called Trace an Object that searches for objects posted by Europol that are linked to child abuse cases.
“We've had some luck in identifying some things, but there's more yet unsolved and more to come as Europol does release some new information every few months,” the moderator explained. The Trace an Object subreddit currently has more than 52.6k members who are putting their sleuthing skills to good use.
#7
Grainy-Like Things? They Appear Inside And On My Closet, And Reappear Whenever I Clean Them. What Are These?
Answer: Termite poop.
Francis 5 years ago
most of the aswers are super interesting and fascinating.. and then this... yeah well sh*t :D
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Seriously? That is pretty big poop from a little insect. If it is then get an exterminator in NOW.
Dizzyaudiohh 5 years ago
That's what I was thinking.. how are these so big to be from something so small?
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Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
Call the exterminator pronto! At that rate, I'd have a look at the ceiling joists too!
#8
Washed Up On A Beach In Florida. What Is This Thing?
Answer: "It is a wave-powered desalinator that is owned by Oneka Technologies, a firm in Quebec. It takes seawater and turns it into fresh water. It is powered by the motion of the waves."
TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
Interesting guess but I believe this is a rare type of jellyfish Push him back into the ocean so he can be with his family!
Ani Archeron 5 years ago
how illegal would it be to carry it home, dismantle it, and put it back together?
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
Whenever you get a stray thought like that just tell yourself you're too pretty for Prison, because that's where you're gonna wind up if you want to tinker with that.
Load More Replies... Bobert Robertson 5 years ago
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Amazon QT 5 years ago
🤣🤣🤣 that would be cool to see happen!! I wonder if it could make my toothpaste go back into the tube as well.
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#9
Weird Squirming Living Lovecraftian Nightmare On Our Lawn Chair This Morning. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Hag moth caterpillar with fuzzy “false arms” on its back to make it look like a dead leaf. (We’re looking at the belly)
Danielle Ibclc Cpst 5 years ago
I will be sleeping with the lights on for the rest of the year.
Christy Smith 5 years ago
That thing doesn’t look like a leaf, it looks like a frightening piece of hell.
M3era 5 years ago
No, on it's back it looks like a dead leaf. The picture shows the front.
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It’s not just the modern world that is full of mysteries: the further back into history we go, the more secretive things get because the purpose of some things has become lost in the fog of time. One of the most cliched and well-known examples of this is Stonehenge.
We all have our personal theories as to what it was used for (burial site, cosmic map, astronomical calendar, druidic circle, UFO landing site, etc.), but the real answer still eludes us. Researchers are still scratching their heads how the stones that weigh around 8,000 pounds (3,629 kilograms) were transported more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) to the place where Stonehenge still stands.
#10
My Boss Just Got Married, And Due To A Combination Of Indian Tradition And Him Being A Bro, He Brought Us These Little Snackboxes. He Left Before I Could Ask Him Much About Them. What Are They Called And What Are They Made Out Of?
Answer: The white block to the left is made with cashew nuts and sugar : It is called kaju barfi. The yellow block looks like it is mango flavored barfi. The circular one looks like dried fig with nuts stuffed in it. The shiny ones have edible silver foil and are also made from almonds, cashews and pistachio nuts. They are all made with clarified butter and are delicious desserts.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
I had a friend that hated Aplets and Cotlets, but loved Turkish Delight. I didn't have the heart to tell her they were the same thing...LOL
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
You had me craving these, which I've never had much less heard of, until the word "barfi"
#11
Mini Harpoon Thing Found When Changing Bedding In A Hospital Room
Answer: Patient had been tased. It's a taser dart.
Isle_of_stressed_pilots 5 years ago
Wait, tazers have harpoons??? That makes it so much scarier
NavyDave 5 years ago
They work by shooting harpoons into the target and conducting an electrical current which becomes a closed circuit being conducted through the target. In short, they run electricity through your body via the harpoons.
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Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
Well, I wasn't even close - I thought it was some sort of sewing machine needle cartridge!
#12
When You Pull The Ring On This, Four Little Pins Come Out. What Is It Used For?
Answer: It's an anti-theft device for pocket watches.
Mark 5 years ago
I would guess that when the watch is pulled on the spikes pop out and jam it into the wearers clothing somehow, sort of like the spines some creatures pop up to stop then being eaten.
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Kylie Stovall 5 years ago
i think u hook the watch to the other end a the pull it and it stabs the thief
Marcellus The Merciless 5 years ago
Imagine the terror when they first discovered the pins come out. I'd be like "Ahhhh WTF just happened?" And never touch it again before curiosity got the better and I would 100% have been right because I would puncture myself like s million times
Something else that has captured the imaginations of many individuals is a series of carvings in Peru made by the Nazca tribe. Nobody knows why exactly the Nazcas made these drawings of animals, plants, insects, and other things.
But two things are for sure: they are huge and they can be seen from the sky. But their true purpose is still shrouded in mystery. Perhaps, one day, we’ll figure out the answers to the secrets of the Nazcas, as well as solve the mysteries of Stonehenge.
#13
Found On Guam In Shallow Water. 3-Meter Diameter Disk. Top Looks Like Polyester In A Honeycomb Shape That Is Fiber Glassed To Flimsy Aluminum Disk. I'm Stumped On This One. Never Seen Anything Like It. What Is This Thing?
Answer: There was recently a Chinese Long March 3B rocket launch that failed, and the rocket and its payload was seen reentering the atmosphere near Guam
K.Kobayashi 5 years ago
I sure hope they didn't touch it. The Long March 3B uses UDMH (unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine) for fuel, which is highly toxic. (Though many US spacecraft use it too, including the Space Shuttle.)
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
Was there any warning about the rocket parts falling? It's almost a miracle no living creature got hit by this.
Letitia DenHartog 5 years ago
True, since a UFO is just an unidentified flying object (except it isn't flying any longer)
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#14
What Are These Swirly Things? Found On Google Maps - Located In Cogdell, Georgia, USA
Answer: Checked the tax records... It is or was an alligator farm.
Weezie Ray 5 years ago
You didn't really deserve it, but I laughed anyway. ;)
Load More Replies... glowworm2 5 years ago
So they can breed them for meat and leather. Kind of like green, scaly cows.
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Just JoLynn 5 years ago
Gator has a very similar taste and texture to chicken so you'd probably like it if you actually tried it.
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Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
The snakelike waterways make sense then considering how Alligators are. That actually looks like they take care of their gators, some gator farms are just downright cruel to them.
#15
Saw This In A Forest In Germany. What Is This Thing?
Answer: It's a fridge, or a old time cold room. Basically a room covered with dirt for insulation
Andrew Gibb 5 years ago
They have these in the UK- in the winter ice from a pond or lake is put inside and this keeps food chilled through summer.
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
We call 'em Root Cellars where I'm at. people still use them and make them. Course ours double as storm shelters sometimes too.
Sawdust 5 years ago
Looks like it's from the Netflix TV show "Dark". (Highly recommended, BTW.)
spirit wolf 5 years ago
I promise you there is a time machine of sorts in there somewhere.
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Amazon QT 5 years ago
This reminds me of the Bras Pitt movie Inglorious Bastards.
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Viv Hart 5 years ago
It's a root cellar, used for storing root vegetables like beet, turnips, or potatoes, also other stuff that needs to be kept cool. It is a hole in the ground, with steps leading down into it, and roofed over, covered with turf for insulation. Large pieces of ice are cut from frozen lakes & rivers in winter, enough to last the whole summer. I first read about them in a childrens' novel called The Root Cellar, by Janet Lunn, and also saw an actual one on an estate in the Netherlands.
#16
My Grandfather Told Us To Not Remove This When Renovating. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Aztec calendar. Funny thing, I remember a bunch of these a while ago being smuggled over the border and they were made of meth.
logical fallacy 5 years ago
Maybe I don't understand drug lingo, but how could they be made of meth? Does it mean they were purchased with meth money?
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Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
The grimacing face in the middle is the face of the calendar's maker when he realized the world would end in 2012!
TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
Yeah grandpas eyes were buggin out when he said that. It’s his rubbing stone. Just rubs his face all over it
Meg Needler 5 years ago
I remember making a cement replica of one at Girl Scout Camp when I was a kid.
#17
Mostly Concerned About Why Is This Thing?
Answer: For doing surgery on the cow
Ceredwyn Ealanta 5 years ago
Smaller ones exist for other livestock. For small sheep, that's how some of them have their hooves trimmed - they come up the run, into the machine, get flipped and manicured (and usually vaccinated with 5-in-1) checked, and then sent out! Though I imagine for a cow it's a hell of a lot scarier!
WhatsUpKittyCat? (I wuv dogs too) 5 years ago
How do you know this stuff?
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#18
Found In Deep Creek Md. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Stonefly larvae. Good sign for the water quality.
kAiTLyN 5 years ago
did some research and the last sentence is in fact NOT sarcastic, they are sensitive to water pollution
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
AT least these are almost all plant eaters; not-too-dissimilar damselfly and dragonfly larvae however... I used to yearly donate about 100 frog eggs to a nursery, one year with a bonus two darter larvae. Near the end those ate about a tadpole each per day... it was a race to see if any would reach froglet stage =(. However everybody was enchanted when the larvae climbed out and turned into dragonflies... it almost made up for the daily horror of tadpole murder.
Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
I think it looks like an alien colonist... (who says they have to be human-scale or larger?)
#19
What Are These Things I Keep Seeing On Nearly All The London Bus Stops In My Area?
Answer: It's potato art... And I'm not even kidding... The artist is unknown (some say by an artist called NoNose), if you look for 'London bus stop potato art' you can find many more articles written about it.
Johanne Trudeau 5 years ago
Hahaha!!! Right now it looks like a recreation of the coronavirus...
#20
Growing From The Basement Ceiling At A Very Rapid Rate. It Is Also Leaving On The Table Below It, Grayish Particles. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Those are the studs from your walls -- redistributed by your termites.
Andy Acceber 5 years ago
The bug ones give me the heebie jeebies. Ugh. I wish this thread was divided into unusual/interesting and gross/scary.
Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
Busy little termites... after the exterminator they might want to call a building surveyor in to check for damage.
spirit wolf 5 years ago
Wow... at this rate, before you know it your termites will remodel your house.
Naomi Cline 5 years ago
I think I would just have to burn my House down if I walked in and saw this!
#21
On The Underside Of Our Cabinet In The House We Recently Bought, Built In The 70s. Plastic With Metal Teeth On One Side, Very Dull. Each Side Is ~4 Inches Long. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Jar opener
SoozeeQ 5 years ago
We had them in a house I grew up in as a kid, which was built pre-70s. It was SO handy. I haven't seen them anyway else though. Every kitchen should have one! Much better than those rubber sponge thingies.
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Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I have a jar opener handed down - there's like a ratchet, and you open and close/tighten it by turning a little wooden handle. I've heard it called a 'gilhooley' but I don't know if that's just my family's term for it.
Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
I find knocking at the top edges of a jar lid with a knife a few times will open most. [Is how I opened a small jar of sundried tomatoes friends of mine had failed to open after many 'strongman attempts'. I whacked it three or four times and the lid popped off with ease...]
Nicole Lovell, CGRO-FR “US Census Bureau/ NCVS” US Census Bureau 2 years ago
It's a jar opener. My husband made one for us. I use it often. So handy
#22
This Rainbow Effect?
Answer: A rainbow is a rainbow. The cause is refraction/dispersion of light due to water in the air.
Looks like it’s raining over there. The shape is just a matter of angles and height.
Dónal Ó Murchadha 5 years ago
Hmmm, I've seen hundreds of rainbows in the sky and they all arched. So ,a rainbow is a rainbow' is hardly an answer and a little bit patronising. This is clearly an unusual rainbow. I think the poster knows it's a rainbow but wants to know why it's shaped this way. Nothing worse when somebody patronises you because they don't have an answer.
MCathenaE 5 years ago (edited)
There are actually many different types of rainbows besides the common arched rainbow we are all familiar with. They are pretty cool. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.worldatlas.com/amp/articles/what-are-the-different-types-of-rainbows.html
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Teresa Groth 5 years ago
Donal Murchadha, being rude and not having your own answer is not correct either, so please try to be kinder with your response!
S R Godwin 1 year ago
Looks like daytime equivalent of the Aurora Borealis! (before some pompous p*** replies, yes I know there's no such thing....is there?)
Caroline Seguin 4 years ago
Maybe it's the beginning of a rainbow arc? I've researched real rainbow photos and the rainbows are ALL in the form of an arc.
#23
What Are Those Things Called? I Think They're Typical Of Gothic Architecture?
Answer: Flying buttresses. They’re there to transfer the weight of the roof outwards to stop the walls bowing and collapsing.
Mark 5 years ago (edited)
Yes they are a decorative necessity, as said the side walls will collapse without them, doubly so with a big tower on top.
M. Brown 5 years ago
Slight correction, they aren't there to transfer the weight of the roof outwards. Rather they resist the tendency of arches of the building to push outwards. But(tress) the important part is that they transfer the outward pushing force into a downward force that is carried by the towers at the end of the buttresses. Horizontal forces are "hard" to deal with. But if the horizontal is turned into a vertical force, which is easy to deal with (your transferring the force into the foundation. Romanesque churches had very small windows and very thick walls. Flying buttresses are one of the most significant advancements of gothic architecture. Thinner walls -> less stone, less cost. It also allowed more windows to bring the light into the building. Romanesque churches might have had 5-10% of a buildings be windows. Gothic made 50% easy to achieve. San Chappelle in Paris has an astounding 90% of the walls are stained glass.
Iris Engler 5 years ago
It's long time ago I was on top there but remembered immediately :-)
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Dynein 5 years ago
Gothic architecture is amazing! People had made some significant realizations about statics (the pointed arch being the main part of that), which allowed them to deviate from the bulky Romanesque walls style to almost airy designs full of windows and pillars. Basically, how to remove/redistribute almost all the substance of a wall until it's just a collection of pillars with a few arches... Whatever structures are left (minus the decorations, of course, and the roofing) are absolutely VITAL and under a ton of pressure! Some central pillars in gothic churches sound like a gong when you hit them.
regi stra 5 years ago
Just come in Milano, and you will see the real Gothic architecture ;). Milano (and Italy in general) is FULL of ancient masterpiece of architecture in every corner (Italy have the most UNESCO site in the world). Plus you can get the original "aperitivo".
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Vaida Kuodytė 5 years ago (edited)
I'm like, "which of the bajillion things?" :D Why can't we build/make beautiful things anymore :(
Angry Duck 5 years ago
There is so much going on in that picture I can’t tell what they’re talking about lol
Sent From The Slytherin House 5 years ago
I am honestly not sure what I should be looking at here
#24
Found This In My House. I Bet My Wife It Has Something To Do With A Tie. Do I Win?
Answer: Hoof pick for cleaning horses hooves.
David Jeu 5 years ago
Still sell for 320$! https://www.hermes.com/us/en/product/hoof-pick-H072826Ev93/
SirPatTheCat 5 years ago
Uh...do you know why they sell for so much? I honestly cannot think of a reason a simple curved tool used to pick s**t, mud, and rocks out of a horse foot would cost 320 dollars haha. Is it like solid gold? Antique?
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Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 5 years ago (edited)
So, you lost your wife on a bet. I'm sorry to heard that. Should had used money instead.
Andrea Anthony 5 years ago
I knew that one! so excited to have known one on here lol. I used to have horses. :)
Podunkus 5 years ago (edited)
Well to tell you the truth, I don’t know about your everyday work horse, but the better breeds would only wear the coordinating Hermès ascot. C755FE99-8...a-jpeg.jpg 
Barn Owl Hedwig 5 years ago
I have cleaned horse hooves with the same thing (different brand) at my grandma's farm!
Rose Brien Harrington 5 years ago
Maybe it's a racehorse and the race was a tie........................?
#25
What Is This Fiber/Sand Ball? Found Among Thousands Like It On A Beach In Spain. It Weighs Almost Nothing
Answer: Sea grass ball
Heather Menard 5 years ago
It is a trojan ball. It gets you to take it home and at night it will open and tons of insects will come out
#26
What Are These Circular Metal Things On These Stairs? I Just Hit My Knee And Goddamn Did It Hurt
Answer: Skateboard prevention device. Keeps em from grinding on edges.
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
I can see why some people would think this is mean, but turn about is fair play the city has probably had signs prohibiting skateboarding, asking people nicely, ticketing them, and it still went on. The kind of damage long term wear and tear would have not only on the curbs but the railings can put everyone at risk. Not to mention when they need to re-do the curbs and railings its coming out of the cities budget (if in the U.S. not sure about overseas). You can see the 'pebbled' like texture on the steps. My bet is this was their last resort. Added bonus, the constant grinding on the edges and rails can become a safety hazard, which can lead to lawsuits (U.S.) especially if its on public property. I don't care if people want to skate board, go for it, but follow the postings. They put them up for a reason.
David Beaulieu 5 years ago
great article that dives even deeper into passive aggressive urban architecture: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/unpleasant-design-hostile-urban-architecture/
Ms Phit 5 years ago
99%invisible is one of my favorite podcasts! Coin check!
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SAF saf 5 years ago
It's not just them simply "grinding" they usually apply a wax to the edge as well to go faster. It's obnoxious and makes it difficult to clean up the dirty melted wax. If the surface is porous like unsealed cement it's impossible to clean up. It's basically property damage, i'm glad these things are becoming more common.
ReaRae 5 years ago
Dude, I know it might sound weird, but there are unofficial rules to skating. One of them being, don't wax s**t that isn't yours. Especially at skate parks, it ruins it for other people.
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TheKnightOwl 5 years ago
I see both sides here. I can understand why people are frustrated with thoughtless skateboarders, but then again there are worse things they could be doing. Not all of them are arseholes.
Trash Panda 5 years ago
I am a life long skater but I also work in commercial construction so I have to see both sides of this. It's hard to look at a sweet curb, planter, or knee wall and not see the grinding potential but these clips are installed to protect the finish and to avoid liability from a skater getting injured.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
There are curb-guards on the curbs and concrete planters where I work, but they're just 1/2-inch angles -- enough to stop a skater, but not cause injury to passers-by. Bad design.
Johanne Trudeau 5 years ago
Good job, sometimes those skateboarders don't think about the costs to towns and cities.
AK K 5 years ago
Not only for skateboardes but also for blind people. It tells them where the start of the stairs are and where the end is
Susann Campbell 5 years ago
Sorry about your knee and hope no permanent damage was done unless you were skate boarding on a do not skateboard on curb. I love skate board watching. It is thrilling to see at the skate board parks. I could watch for hours at their skill and how polite they are taking turns. And to see a competition on the TV I will getting nothing else done. I hope your knee does get better.
#27
Plaque With Numbers Inscribed On It. Found On The Sidewalk Outside A Building At My University
Answer: Magic square. It's a popular sort of decoration to put outside math departments
Suma Biswas 5 years ago
Every number both raw and colum if u sum up the ans is always 34. Try it
Nicky Battement 5 years ago
I already learned my multiplication, ain't nobody gon' teach me this witchcraft.
#28
Saw This Rusty Thing On My Walk In A Forest. The Forest Belong To A Estate Wedellsborg, Vestfyn, Denmark. What Is This Thing?
Answer: It is an underwater mine
Rose Brien Harrington 5 years ago
You're right, and it's not a rusty, it's a husky! Sheesh!
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Hazel Waring 5 years ago
It is certainly not an underwater mine. Looks very much on the ground to me XD
CharliAnn Olney 5 years ago
go away doggie, go away. (Ummm, call your local bomb disposal unit) A bomb disposal unit can safely get rid of it one way or another. Mines like this are not stable and can be dangerous to your health.
Johanne Trudeau 5 years ago
Now how the heck did it get from the water to the forest?!?!? Hmmmm
#29
I Found This Hanging From The Basement Rafters Of My 100 Year Old House. It Appears To Be Two Marbles Or Something Similar In A Hanger Of Some Sort. Any One Have A Clue What This Could Be?
Answer: It's a razor blade sharpener. A 1930s salesman's special and it doesn't even sharpen the blades just realigns the edge and gets you a few more shaves.
Pusfarm 5 years ago
Reminds me of Click Clacks, a toy I used to play with as a kid in the 70s.
Arenite 5 years ago
Yeah, that's what I thought, but I couldn't remember the name.
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There were loads of those in my high school art classes we used them to pin wet paintings up
Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
So when the person found out they'd been conned, it found its way to a nail in the basement, possibly as a reminder not to fall for a conman's tricks again?
Karen Ballou 5 years ago
Looks more like a place to hang electrical wire. The two marbles are glass, they used to use glass insulators on old electrical poles.
Marek Yanchurak 5 years ago
So it's a razor blade honer, similar to the steel rod in most knife sets. Btw you can always use a piece of fabric from an old pair of jeans or a strip of leather to hone your razor blades.
#30
Found In A Crawlspace Of A House From The 80's Next To 3 Red Boxes Encased In Concrete. What Is This Thing?
Answer: This label is used for materials with gamma and neutron emissions This label was specifically used on containers shipped by aircraft, and that reference is from the late 50s/early 60s. Any red label is going to be Group I or II, which as stated above emits gamma rays, neutrons, or both, and is potentially harmful even with the box closed. OP's lid came from something shipped by air, but it's interesting to note that on ground shipments of the same class of materials (like with the label variant I found in my first edit), the trucks themselves were required to be marked "CAUTION" or "DANGEROUS - RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS" on the sides and rear of the vehicle just to haul this kind of material.
Post author update: As of today a 3 man team from the state of Utah department of environmental quality, division of waste management and radiation control, uranium Mills and radioactive materials section (holy [crap]) showed up at my friend's house around 10am and spent a few hours taking readings, swabbing samples and asking questions and after all of that, found nothing but natural trace amounts of radon. The "lid" they think was from the late 1950's and was unrelated to the "vault".
RaroaRaroa 5 years ago
So, where do you work? Takes a deep breath: "department of environmental quality, division of waste management and radiation control, uranium Mills and radioactive materials section"
Ben Garfath 5 years ago
I can just imagine the scene in their office: Three guys (that's the whole section) playing an endless game of poker, day in, day out, whatever the weather. There's the 'veteran', nearing retirement, long beard & lots of 'back in my day' stories. There's the main guy, knows where everything is, knows all the rules (and how to break them without getting busted). There's the new kid, who's 40.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
I wonder if someone created the vault and put the panel in front of it because it was for a secret stash for money. Maybe they thought the lid with the radiation warnings would keep curious people away.
David Jeu 5 years ago
Do nor place undeveloped film within 5 meters. This is a strong radioactive source..
Ann O'Riley 5 years ago
My friend told me about a disk he found. The top was thick plexiglass. Inside was a disk that glowed all the time. He checked it with a Geiger counter, and it was very radioactive.
Around the perimeter, it said "U.S. Radium Corp. The metal backing had a clip on it.
He found it alongside the road at Todd's Point beach park in Greenwich, Connecticut.
He and his brother dismantled it and it stopped being radioactive.
He said it was similar to this photo. 07BD656D-3...5c346.jpeg 
#31
I’m Not Doing My Dishes Until I Know What This Beautiful Thing Is
Answer: That’s a bacteria pellicle.
Emily Ashcraft 5 years ago
the better question is.. what inspired you to suddenly start doing dishes after so long?
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Evelína Zlá 5 years ago
What was it in the first place? Soup? And what the hell is the black thing in the corner.... ?
Cindy Crowell 5 years ago
looks like a spot on the sink where the porcelain coating was chipped off and you can see the metal underneath. I used to rent a place where the bathroom sink was like that, very OCD triggering.
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Tiffany Marie 5 years ago
I'd throw it away with gloves.. And aim to make a goal to wash dishes at least every other day if you fail on a daily basis. My depression got in the way a lot of cleaning but my goals help now to maintain a healthy life style even if some days I fail. Try again.
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
Also if you set the kitchen timer for just 5 minutes you can tear through a surprising number of dishes so you're less likely to get a backlog.
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#32
So I Found This Key In With A Bunch Of Things I Was Given Decades Ago When My Grandfather Died. Anyone Ever Seen A Key Like This Before? It’s About 2cm Long An I Have No Clue Where It Came From
Answer: The swastika was one of Britain's favourite lucky charms during WW1, e.g. this swastika key charm from the war. There were swastika cushions in British homes & the Scouts had a swastika badge. There must have been a mass domestic clear out in the 1930s/40s, as such items now rare.
David Jeu 5 years ago
Never knew the brits used this symbol before the nazis. Very interesting.
JuJu 5 years ago
Was used in India way before Christ. The Nazis just ruined a symbol of luck and well-being wishes
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Daria B 5 years ago (edited)
Remember that mysterious locked door in that dungeon you raided in the first part of your trip to save the world? Now, go get the treasure! ♡ (do it before you proceed with the main quest)
PKMN Trainer Link 5 years ago
Then make sure you have enough keys for the other doors
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Chewie Baron 5 years ago
There us an interesting story regarding the Nazis use of the Swastika. When they gained power in 1933 and starting getting attention across the globe for their behaviour, a group of Hindu elders wrote to Adolf Hitler, saying that if they continued to use the Swastika at that angle (The Nazis had rotated it by 45 degrees to how it was normally used),it will bring you bad luck.
Amazon QT 5 years ago
Too bad Asshat didn’t listen to them... we’d be celebrating that symbol instead of forced to not use it bc of the horrific circumstances involved with it now.
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Beth McFadden 5 years ago
For thousands of years Swastikas were considered a symbol of good luck in the west and spirituality in India until they were perverted by Nazi Germany.
Ann Gullberg 5 years ago
The symbol was used decoratively in many cultures before the Nazis used it. Have an embroidered table runner from Sweden from the late 1800s-early1900s that has the swastika on it... have seen it in Native American art from way back too...
Rikke Hackner 5 years ago
I really love it that Bored Panda can teach me things that I never knew. I am Danish and had no idea that the swastika was used as Carlsberg logo.
enjoyinglife 5 years ago
My mother's high school class insignia was the swastika. Running man. That was in the late 30's located in Butler Oklahoma. USA. It had new ing before Hitler took it.
#33
What Is This Thing That You Always See On An Escalator?
Answer: They help keep shoes, dresses, handbags, etc. from getting snagged in the tiny gap at the side. I use them as a little shoe shine, too.
Andrew Lawson 5 years ago
I remember loads of stories in the 70s about people getting pulled into the workings of escalators... these were the answer.
Johanne Trudeau 5 years ago
I didn't know about the snagging protection, I always thought it was to clean your shoes or boots...
#34
What Are These Are What Are They For? The Girl Sitting Across From Me Had Them On All Fingers On Both Hands
Answer: Oval finger splints for treating: Arthritis, Boutonniere Deformities, Crooked Finger, Fractures, Hypermobility (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome), Lateral Deviation, Mallet Finger, Swan Neck, Trigger Finger, Trigger Thumb
Slinkman 5 years ago (edited)
'Hmmm.. What is that?' 'Shall i ask her politely?' 'Nááááh let's take a photo of her hand and upload it to a site that has a black and white bear without hobbies as a mascotte and ask there for the answer!'
sav 5 years ago
I mean at least they didn't add her face to the pic. You have no clue how people might react to a stranger asking such a question. To her it might be fairly sensitive
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Nienke Cnossen 5 years ago
I have them too. First in plastic, later on in silver. Silversplints. It gives the joint stability. My collageen is defect and makes my fingers bend in positions that hurt. I've got Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. A syndrome that slowely sucks all life out of you due to pain, wqknrs, utterly fatigue. From an active person turned into a housemouse. The question appears often along patiënts about quality of life. Loads are struggling and suïcide and euthanasia can lingering in our minds.
Christel Nellemann 5 years ago
Thanks for giving alittle enlightment, Nienke, I wish you relief and lotsoflove.
Load More Replies... Kylie Stovall 5 years ago
hey it may be interesting but that is not respecting other people 😕😑
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I wonder if these help with dupuytren's contracture? Might look into them.
Claire 5 years ago
They are most used to stabilise a joint, particularly in the fingers. With a contracture the problem is with the fascia of the palm of the hand. I don't think a splint would help, but best if you talk to a specialist.
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Jack Selous 5 years ago
They limit how far people can stick their booger-hooks up their nose. Mostly found in heavily populated urban areas.
Roger Bird 5 years ago
Reducing one's load of inflammation works much better. Fasting, 10,000 I.U.s of vitamin D, a carnivorous diet, grounding will work wonders for one trying to reduce inflammation. Plus, the entire body and mind will benefit not just the joints on the hand.
Christel Nellemann 5 years ago
Sounds like bad advice. My pian shoots up with meat, the moreprocessed theworse, vegetarian is bliss to me. But never learn fromrandom internet advice, find more concrete resources /sources. There is loads of antiinflammatory foods to help us.
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Found In The Middle Of Asian Desert, In Google Earth At 40°26'37"N 90°48'00"E. What Is This Thing?
Answer: They are the evaporation ponds for the Xinjiang Lop Nur Potash Co., Ltd. one of the world's largest potassium sulfate production mines
Kai Wendorf 5 years ago
I tried it and there is no street view available. It looks even cooler to look at it yourself
Mshauri Mazuri 5 years ago (edited)
The moment I see X on the name of whatever, I stop reading and go to the next sentence.
#36
Found In The Wood In A Creek. It Was Under A Piece Of Wood. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Those look like midge eggs, an aquatic fly
WhatsUpKittyCat? (I wuv dogs too) 5 years ago
They look more like alien fingerprints off some alien with yellow skin covered in glue.
kitty.boom 5 years ago
I have to Google what midge looks like. So those "mosquitoes" that I see near body of water is basically not mosquitoes at all.
Troy-shane Tognolini 2 years ago
They look like long spindeky worms from a cats in r dogs bumb
#37
Found On The Norfolk (UK) Coast. Very Soft And Floppy, Pale Pink But Not Rotten Or Water Bloated. What Is This?
Answer: A hairless seal flipper
mph seti 5 years ago
Answer: Something I would not touch to determine how soft and floppy it was.
t.e.a. 5 years ago
okay but this completely looks like a foot. if I were them, I might have ran...
SciFi Vortex 5 years ago
If the invention of fire-making was left up to you, Nicky, we'd all still be sitting in cold, dark caves. LOL
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#38
This Sci-Fi Looking Place In Poland, Somewhere By Krakow. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Alvernia Studios is a film studio located near Kraków, Poland, 18 km (10 miles) from the Kraków-Balice Airport, with additional offices in Mumbai and Warsaw.
Daria B 5 years ago
Toriyama style architecture. Bet they all come from capsules and the studio can travel the world if they wanted to. ♡
Bacony 5 years ago
They also have similar accommodations in Lalaland, Tinkywinkyland and Dipsyland.
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Łukasz Mirosław 5 years ago
Actually it's no longer a film studio. The complex is being rebuilt into a space/s-f themed amusement park and science center. http://alverniaplanet.com/index.php/en/
#39
An Opening In The Bottom Floor Of An 1850s Home In Charleston, Sc. What Is This Thing?
Answer: A way to access your crawlspace, there’s usually plumbing, wiring and potentially ductwork that periodically may need maintenance
Kenny Kulbiski 5 years ago
Especially if you have to work on something. Unless you're fond of dirt, cobwebs, spiders, and other disgusting c**p.
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Grace Kennedy 5 years ago
We used to have one of those in a closet at our old house. One time, my dad was under the house (via crawlspace) and he felt something "bite" him. e turned and saw something long a thing on the ground. He screamed "SNAKE!". At the time he was under the hallway, and my mom was passing by. She calmed him down and got him out. We figured out later that it was just an electrical wire that had shocked him.
Ivana 5 years ago
You know in Florida they bury your pipes under concrete so when your pipes need to be repaired it costs you thousands of dollars instead of the $2.50 the damn pipe would have cost! Or you have to run all new lines from the ceiling. God bless that crawlspace and the people who made it. They were thoughtful and considerate.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
These were also used to hide people during the time that slavery was in flux in the south. The supreme court had determined that people that were born as slaves were not citizens and that slavery couldn't be abolished (1857?) They were also used in the 1920's as a place to hide the family stash of bootleg liquor.
ƒιѕн 5 years ago
There used to be a floor furnace there. It has been removed and the hole covered. Pretty common.
Frank Vogtner 5 years ago
You are correct! We still have a floor furnace that is still used for our main source of heat. In this case, the furnace was removed - probably when a new modern heating unit was installed in the house. Also, you can see where the grate for the old furnace rested around the existing hole.
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#40
Poured A Glass Of Water Last Night From The Tap Left It Under The Light On The Night Stand, Next Morning I Found This Floating In It... What Could It Be?
Answer: If it actually did come out the tap with the water, my guess is some sort of flocculant/coagulant used in tap-water treatment, that somehow made it past the system and was still dissolved/in suspension in the water. Then settled out during the night.
These chemicals are used to attract particle in the water and clump them together for easier removal. Some of those "concoctions" looks similar to this after settling out.
Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
It looks more like ghost larvae! Never seen anything like this in any water I have ever drunk anywhere...
Hello Dolly 5 years ago
If it is in the US they don’t do it where I live. I have sat glasses of water out many times and nothing of this sort has happened.
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#41
I Found This Old Pencil Like Thing. It's One Solid Piece Of Metal Though!!
Answer: Solid graphite pencil.
Tim Douglass 5 years ago
I've got one of those around somewhere. I do know that if you drop them they shatter.
#42
For Context: It's In A Dentists Office
Answer: A very old dental drill.
BiEL Sampaio 5 years ago
Why not ask the dentist? A lot of those in the list i would as the person involved.
WhatsUpKittyCat? (I wuv dogs too) 5 years ago
Ow I am just imagining having this used with no painkillers....
Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
Guessed it right... figure something must've powered those (damn devil) drills before electricity!
#43
My Daughter Is Convinced She Found A Shark Tooth, Picked Up At The Beach In Castelldefels, Spain
Answer: Geologist here, it’s definitely a quartz vein. You can see the host rock at the tip of the ‘tooth’. It looks like it’s hosted in jasper.
#44
Small Booklets Of Gibberish Found In A Vacant Home, Appears To Possibly Be Military Related
Answer: A ritual book for the Independent Order of the Oddfellows
MauKini 5 years ago
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political and non-sectarian international fraternal order of Odd Fellowship. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Evolving from the Order of Odd Fellows founded in England during the 1700s, the IOOF was originally chartered by the Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity in England but has operated as an independent organization since 1842, although it maintains an inter-fraternal relationship with the English Order. The order is also known as the Triple Link Fraternity, referring to the order's "Triple Links" symbol, alluding to its motto "Friendship, Love and Truth"
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Landlord Found It In The Basement. Heavy Metal. Google Isn't Responding Well To "Scary Wand" Or "Aggressive Pleasure Instrument". What Is This Thing?
Answer: Soldering iron. The end you are holding is the head, and is usually copper. The other end would normally have a wood handle.
Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
Torture device, if anything! Maybe the "aggressive pleasure" relates to the person wielding it?
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Scary wand? Aggresive pleasure instrument? I hope they didn't try to use it for thepurposes they typed :*D
Motherofdogs 5 years ago
Can be used to cut glass too...that's how it was done before glass cutters were used. Get the iron's head very hot in the fire, add a tiny drop of moisture (traditionally spit) to the edge of the glass where you want to cut, then, starting at the wet edge, draw the tip of the soldering iron along the cut line. Then, tap tap tap, & voilá! Gives a good clean cut, too.
#46
Found This In A Coffeshop. What Is This Game? How Do You Play It?
Answer: Mancala as a family of games is over 1300 years old. This is one of the oldest known games. It was played with seeds and was a way to teach children counting and planting.
A fun way to play is using M&Ms!
Sent From The Slytherin House 5 years ago
HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT MANCULA IS????? also the m&m thing sound fun, I've never tried that before
J-Yogi-Temp-Mom 5 years ago
used to play this with my grandma when I was little for hours on the porch. Gosh I miss her. i have the game we used to play and will often get it out on a lazy afternoon to play with my boys. I know she's enjoying watching them play it as well.
Lavender Brown 5 years ago
I love this game!! How do people not know how to play or what it is?! I grew up with this game.
kitty.boom 5 years ago
We call this sungka, made from wood and it comes with shells. Ours was not foldable though.
#47
What Is This? It Was At My Grandfather’s House
Answer: Native American here, the term most associated with these are "peace pipes or peace pipe tomahawks". Natives call them Calumet's as a holdover from the french days.
Ronan Watson 5 years ago
I like this. So if hey won't smoke the peacepipe you use the tomahawk? Like you can either do this or that?
Susan Bertke 5 years ago
I'm guessing here... If it's glass, it would be nearly useless as a weapon. So maybe it was broken after the peace talk to symbolize the end of hostilities. (Another way of "burying the hatchet"?)
#48
Translucent Gelatinous Matter With Black/White Spots, Found In Local Woodlands (UK). What Is This Thing?
Answer: Frogspawn
Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
In my language that's called 'kikkerdril' (pronounced 'kicker-drill')...
Binxyminxem 5 years ago
Dank je wel for the translation! I'm English but used to live in Holland as a very young child, since then I've forgotten most of the Dutch I learnt so like learning new words 🙂 I still remember pofertjes en chocomel very fondly though!
Load More Replies... Rick 5 years ago
Ugh I hate frogspawn. We used to get it in our pond in our garden at my old house. Made me feel sick every year it came
Motherofdogs 5 years ago
We used to collect some every year from local ponds and 'raise' them in a barrel of water until they hopped away. Used to love watching the process of them changing from eggs to tadpoles to froglets. Would still enjoy that, tbh!
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Found On The Beach After Hurricane Dorian Wreaked Havoc On The Maritimes.. Curious To Know What It Is?
Answer: rat tailed sea cucumber.
WhatsUpKittyCat? (I wuv dogs too) 5 years ago
Cats: Cucumbers were bad enough, but now there is WATER cucumbers?!
Bobert Robertson 5 years ago
Rocking Rat Tails like they came from Tiger King
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#50
Found While Clearing Yard. Weighs About 6 Lbs. Area Has Ww2 History. Should I Call Eod?
Answer: Always call local police when it comes to an uxo. They’ll call EOD for you.
As for the round it looks like a MK 1 shrapnel round. WWI projectile made by the French, and used by allies.
MauKini 5 years ago
Yes it is, in germany we have to evacuade parts of cities round about 3-5 times a year because of ww2 bombs. Mostly they ar found whilst buliding etc.
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Kallyn Desmarais 5 years ago
My father went prospecting with a metal detector on an old firing ground near a military base, found a 90 mil projectile, figured obviously it was safe because it was just lying underground, and proceeded to cart it around in multiple cross country moves. Got to a town near an army depot and for funsies he asked a friend working there to check out his cool paperweight. Said call resulted in a small parade of official vehicles and a bomb disposal unit, as the thing was not, in fact, a harmless dud. Apparently if we'd dropped it just wrong it could have taken out half a medium size town. YES, definitely call police when finding a uxo, and preferably before moving it anymore than necessary.
#51
Found This Thing In The Woods. What Is This Thing?
Answer: It's stinkhorn egg.
juice 5 years ago
they are mushrooms. the "eggs" are emerging stinkhorns (i believe they grow underground, and the actual mushroom sprouts above ground) 0bpir25fnqu01.jpg 
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
Eww, I just read that when mature these smell like rotting flesh. Also they are edible at a certain stage of development.
EHops 5 years ago
🤢 No no no no nope....who in their right mind thought "This smells like a dead person...let's eat"???
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Jan Feline 5 years ago (edited)
This is an interesting feature of the stinkhorn. https://canmushroomssavetheplanet.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/can-an-orgasm-be-caused-by-the-scent-of-a-mushroom-the-stinkhorn-mushroom/
bob foormanek 5 years ago
Those are actually edible, and some find them tasty. But only until they hatch. After hatching they won't kill you either, but the smell is revolting.
Avery S Alberico 5 years ago
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Flive.staticflickr.com%2F4909%2F45346763155_0c8e8ea713_b.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fjungle_mama%2F45346763155&tbnid=EuXAV9N1yzvL_M&vet=12ahUKEwiegIjPxp_pAhUFgK0KHYFJCuYQMygLegUIARCUAg..i&docid=ohPW3x1GDnlm8M&w=768&h=1024&q=stinkhorn%20fungus&hl=en&safe=active&ved=2ahUKEwiegIjPxp_pAhUFgK0KHYFJCuYQMygLegUIARCUAg
#52
Family Heirloom, Very Skillfully Hand Made, Roughly 7.5’ X 9.5’
Answer: It is likely an embroidered napkin that is used to cover the bread (challah) on the jewish sabbath. It is just for decorative purposes, and helps make the table look festive for the Friday night meal . The embroidery has not been completed. The unfinished design appears to be leaves and flowers, with a stylized tree of life around a colorful star of David. The 12 oval areas recall the 12 tribes, a common motif. When finished it might have been bigger, with fringe or a fabric border placed around the main piece. It is a charming piece of Judaica.
In reply to some comments below, it is possible, but I think unlikely, that it is a passover matzoh cover. Pretty much every matzoh cover I've seen refers (has a motif) in some way to the seder, or matzoh, or passover. It is unlikely that it is a tfillin bag. I've made a study of them, and this does not conform in style, fabric, or motifs to any I have ever seen.
This is most definitely not Celtic, or masonic, or demonic, it's a piece of domestic Jewish needlework from the first half of the 20th century.
And why is it in OP's non-jewish family? Someone who liked needlework could have picked it up at a garage sale or a thrift shop decades ago and it becomes a piece of family folklore.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
It also may be that a family member was commissioned to make one and never finished the job.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago (edited)
Or the family was Jewish and at some point became hidden Jews, then changed faiths to avoid discrimination. Many people recall unexplained rituals in rslatives' homes, such as lighting candles on Friday evenings, and only later learned why. DNA tests could reveal some answers.
Rachael Leventhal 5 years ago
I saw it and immediately thought "challah cover" before seeing the answer. Each of my grandmothers had at least one as a wedding present and inherited others from their mothers. My mother and I each got one as wedding presents. It's super common for little kids in Hebrew school to make imitations by coloring in marker on fabric, often being encouraged to make similar designs. (My parents are the proud owners of the one that I made, and then those my kids 30 years later. )
#53
Doll Found In A River. Could Be Something From A Haunted Attraction But If It's Not I'd Like To Know What This Is
Answer: Old marionette. Could have been used in one of those "fortune teller" vending boxes at a fair
t.e.a. 5 years ago
imagine swimming in a river to look down and see its face...NAHHH. that's what nightmares are made of.
Sent From The Slytherin House 5 years ago
oh thank you sooo much Bored Panda. Now I'll sleep peacefully tonight.
#54
Taken Out The Window Of An Airplane Flying Over Europe. What Is This Thing?
Answer: It's the emissions from a smoke stack or steam stack rising above the cloud level.
Charl Marx 5 years ago
Actually it's a crane shot of Manic Street Preachers doing the photoshoot for This is My Truth album: 105967-1.jpeg 
#55
What Car Make/Model Is This? This Car Was Involved In A Fatal Hit And Run Of A 15 Y/O Girl Yesterday And Police Haven’t Identified The Car Yet. This Is The Only Picture Available.
Answer: A white Chevy Equinox.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago (edited)
I still find it unbelievable that we can get pictures from a planet millions of lightyears away that show the grains of sand but somehow we are not capable of producing surveillance camera's that can' compete with the pictures made with a patato.
Batty 5 years ago
People are far more interested in learning about other planets than the goings-on outside the shop on the corner of the street. It's not financially possible for every camera to be so high-quality, especially in low income areas. Besides the risk of theft, spending a ton of money on a quality security camera seems like a huge waste until the unthinkable happens.
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#56
What Is This Mark On This Grey Seal (UK), I Observe Them On A Regular Basis And Never Seen Anything Like It?
Answer: Asked a seal rescue worker friend, it's branding from pre tagging days, they can live up to 40 years so there's still going to be a few about.
#57
A Pre-1950 Book That Appears To Be Made Up Of Dialogues And Monologues, Maybe Made Up Of The First Letter Of Each Word In The Series? Anyone Know What It Is?
Answer: It's a cipher.
The masons use this cipher, especially in their book, apparently the current F.M book is censored, not only with this cipher but with blank spaces that no one is allowed to know, only the real top lodges have the originals from the 16-17 century that are not censored or encrypted but no one is allowed to handle them.
Carol Taylor 5 years ago
makes me wish l was a man so l could attend a Masonic lodge..father and uncle, also brother n law was/is members of the Freemasons..it's a mans world there..
#58
Found Inside Cremated Remains. Triangular Less Than An Inch Tall And Wide. C And T At Bottom. Did Not Burn So Possibly Metallic. Felt Flexible
Answer: Part of chemo port.
Kevin Donegan 5 years ago
The question is not "what is this thing" ... the question is "why is someone digging through cremated remains?"
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
Most like morticians. They have to bag the remains after cremation and its not uncommon to find un-burned parts like above, especially surgical screws, plates, etc. Most places won't put those with the remained, so they're sorted out. There's massive regulations on what can be done to the human body after death for disposal, and cremation even more so. That's why they get onto people for 'scattering ashes' of loved ones. You have to have a permit for transporting through air or other commercialized transportation. This is just the U.S. I'm not sure how other nations do it. This is more an FAQ page than anything. http://www.us-funerals.com/funeral-articles/understanding-cremation-laws-and-how-they-affect-arranging-a-cremation.html#.XrLDsmhKiM8
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june dronsky 5 years ago
The C and T at the bottom indicates that it is safe to use a power injector for contrast injection during cat scans
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
I want to be cremated but I have heard horror stories about supposedly cremated bodies being found in funeral home attics and in the woods. Can you ever be sure that you have your loved ones remains? My uncle wrote a book about cremated remains. The omega ghost. Anyways, at least this person knows they received their lives one (assuming their loved one went thru chemo). Am I looking too deep into this?
La Petite Morte 5 years ago
No, you're not. It's a sad thing in our industry, but one we have to deal with. Funeral homes run on a great deal of trust. You are trusting us as Funeral Directors to take care of your loved ones as you yourself would take care of them. Sometimes better than. With that basic expectation comes the expectation that those who work in the industry have a moral compass & integrity that is beyond reproach. So... when something like these incidents you mentioned happened, or things like in NY or TX, one person being a lazy, money grubbing twatwaffle can & will taint the entire industry overnight. It usually takes close to a year to regain public trust after any one of these stories hit the news. My suggestion is: do your research. Find a crematory that has good reviews & set up a pre-need contract with them. Regularly check their reviews after, & if you see anything that gives you pause, transfer your pre-need to another crematory. You can go direct to the crematory & skip the funeral home.
Load More Replies... Flabuless-Jaye 4 years ago
Someone's going to spend ages sifting through my cremated remains. There's a chemo port, screws and plates from my spine and a hip joint and socket. I wonder if they'll sell them for scrap?? It would be nice if my family got something after I die. 😊
JLaw 5 years ago
I wonder how old that is? I have a chemo port and it looks like a £1 coin with a tube attached. It is implanted under the skin on my right upper chest. To administer the medication, a special needle is inserted through my skin, into the port, and from that it goes into a vein in my beck, and then into my heart to pump it around my body. (Clever stuff)
#59
Ceramic Jug With Holes In The Opening; What Is This Used For?
Answer: A "thingy" to help hold flowers straight or in the design you desire.
Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
This one must be for artificial flowers since those holes look rather small...
#60
Found Near The Water In Newport Rhode Island. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Conch egg cases
KatHat 5 years ago
What's unpleasant about it? It's not dirty. It doesn't even look wet. When did we all get so squeamish?!
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ilikeplants 5 years ago
Although, that far north, It's probably whelk not conch.
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#61
This Thing Was In My Colleagues Kfc Drink. Sorry For The Blurry Image!
Answer: It's the nozzle from the soda machine. It must have fallen off.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago (edited)
We had to take every one of those off the coke machines and soak them in club soda at cracker barrel every night. I was an opener so I had to snap them on every morning.
Cori 5 years ago
As a former convenience store employee, I can tell you, these get absolutely disgusting if they aren't cleaned regularly
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
*shudders* Oh God...those things are so nasty when they're not cleaned correctly and regularly.
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#62
Found In The Muck In Ohio. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Teeth of Grass Carp.
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
If you only knew what other people know lmao. There was once a paper written on textiles of one specific tribe of long dead folk that is probably the only ever written thing on it. It happens all the time, something just fascinates someone and they have to learn more. I'm full of a ton of random knowledge because of how much things around me interest me.
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#63
Spotted On The Train In Copenhagen This Morning. Rolling White Light Across The Buttons, The Colour Lights Flashed Sporadically. Headphones Jack Connected And The User Was Wearing Headphones. Ladybug Appears On The Top Left. What Is This Thing?
Answer: It is an OP-Z by Teenage Engineering - A synthesizer and sequencer.
#64
Do Workers Mom Found This In A Box In The Attic. What Is This Thing?
Answer: The kīla or phurba is a three-sided peg, stake, knife, or nail-like ritual implement traditionally associated with Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Bön, and Indian Vedic traditions
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
To be fair those look like the stick things you shove into corn cobs to have something to hold onto while you eat it.
Binxyminxem 5 years ago
Lol I prefer your answer! Very posh corn cob sticks 😂
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Stephen Lyford 5 years ago
Eddie Murphy's character in "The Golden Child" had to retrieve one of these if I remember correctly.
#65
Found This When I Opened The Gas Lid Cover Of My Car. I've Never Seen It Before, Any Help?
Answer: A carpule of anesthetic
kitty.boom 5 years ago
I remember my dad used to have these when I was a kid. But it contains perfume, it's like a tester perfume they give for free.
Vero Morales 5 years ago
of those perfume samples, they are similar to this one but no, this is not one of those samples
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Found This In My Honda Crv. Gonna Leave It In Until The Police Arrive. It Unlocked The Door But The Alarm Still Went Off.
Answer: It's the blade from a pair of scissors, can be filed into a bump key or used for brute force.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Lucky the alarm went off otherwise your car or possessions inside would likely have been stolen.
#67
Someone In Town Found This On The Beach Today And Wanted To Know What It Was So I Offered To Ask Here. She Said It Was Squishy, Very Large, And Had No Smell. We're In Southeastern Nc So Dorian Swooped By Yesterday If That Helps At All. What Is This Thing?
Answer: It looks like it might be a tunicate called sea pork or sea liver.
Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
Apparently the tunicate colony is dead when it looks like that... I wouldn't have touched it or gone near since it looks like some sort of innards.
kitty.boom 5 years ago
It looks like it came from an anime and will swallow you in an instant.
#68
This Cylindrical Container My Wife Bought. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Royal Navy cordite bucket.
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
Cordite was a new smokeless propellant developed in the U.K. in the late 19th c. and replaced black powder which had been in use for centuries. Cordite quickly came to be used in weapons of all sizes from rifles up to the large guns on battleships. When cordite was required it was transported from a magazine to the gun using a cordite bucket, or “Clarkson Case”. These canisters were reusable so when the cordite was used to fire the shell from a gun the bucket would return to the magazine to pick up a new load.
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Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Two possible answers: 1) why tf not 2) looks kinda dope
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Glass Vials? In A Glass Bowl
Answer: It's a vodka set. Ice goes in the bowl, glasses go in the ice to keep the drinks cold.
#70
Was Walking By A Cabin When I Saw This Thing. But I Struggle To Imagine How This Would Be Used Effectively?
Answer: This specific configuration is used while skating to create a human “Zamboni” and clean the ice when there is a lot of powder
Electric Ed 5 years ago
Why the split configuration? Would a wide scoop like used for cleaning yards be more effective and cheaper?
Mark 5 years ago
Maybe they are other versions that are like that but this one does seem to be for something specific judging by the answer.
Load More Replies... Dónal Ó Murchadha 5 years ago
I'm I the only one who is more confused after they read the answer?
Carol Emory 5 years ago
It can also be used in an opposite way...hold onto the long reign of a horse while gripping the handle of this contraption. Stand on the blades and it acts like a sled...kind of like a dog sled, but with horses. I know my great great grandfather used to use it this way.
#71
Came Across This On My Way To Work. No Identifying Marks On Any Side, No Wording Or Numbers Anywhere. Came To A Point At The Top. My Guess Is A Booster?
Answer: Pershing II missile
Francis 5 years ago
who doesn't love driving next to a missile? i know it is save, but stil, not a nice feeling though...
Yettichild 5 years ago
If it contained explosives, the truck would be placarded. It's probably just the shell and non-explosive parts. Even the military is required to placard when moving things on public roads.
Load More Replies... Andy Acceber 5 years ago
Strap it to the truck in the opposite direction, and I'd imagine the driver would never have a problem with tailgaters.
#72
What Is This Red Hat That I See This Student Wearing All The Time?
Answer: It's a type of turban worn by Naqshbandi Sufi Muslims. Naqshbandi Taj
Maik 5 years ago
Introverts don't like talking to strangers. And there's nothing wrong with that. Not everyone is an extrovert and not everyone feels comfortably engaging with unknown people, specially asking questions.
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#73
Found On A Ranch In Texas. Usually Found In Groups Of Several. Very Heavy & Dense. Close To Round
Answer: Barite roses. Gypsum would be lightweight, barite is dense thus heavy.
#74
My Grandfather Recently Passed, And This Was His Favorite Plane He Flew. I Believe It Was Korea, And He Was Navy, Retired In The Late 70s As A Major. What Kind Of Plane Is This?
Answer: That looks like a C-5 Galaxy.
SoozeeQ 5 years ago
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a22130434/c5-badass-plane/
Load More Replies... Trash Panda 5 years ago
C-5As used to fly over our house on occasion. We lived right across a 3 mile wide bay from Eglin Air Force Base, the world's largest. The wing span would cast a shadow over our entire block. Fun Fact: The Wright brothers could have flown the Kittyhawk inside the fuselage of a C-5A
N S 5 years ago
Not so fun fact - US dropped more bombs (tnt equivalent) on NK than the totality of bombs dropped during WW2.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Really? Including the two nuclear weapons? In 3 years? I’m not doubting you per se, but I know off of the top of my head that the two bombs were 15 and 20 kilotons tnt equivalent alone, not to mention all of the other ordinance during World War II, if we are including all of it by all countries. I’m no expert on explosives, but I think that much would wipe the Korean Peninsula off the map. Seems...excessive. Can you direct me to a source?
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Saw It At A Brewery. Some Sort Of Game, Maybe?
Answer: Pachinko machine, a gambling game in Japan.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
My dad got one of these for us when we were little. Had it a whole 3 months before my mother made us sell it because the noise from it was driving her around the bend.
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I had a game called Kerplunk - it was a vertical plastic tube, where you'd insert pick-up sticks through the center, then dump a bunch of marbles on top - the goal was to pull out the most sticks without dropping the marbles. It was VERY noisy, and looking back, my mom had an alcohol problem at the time, so for someone with a hangover it must've been even worse!
Load More Replies... Trash Panda 5 years ago
As an Air Force brat, I was born in Okinawa where we lived for about 4 years. We owned one and brought it back stateside with us. If they are in good shape, collectors will pay well for these.
#76
Spin The Handle And The Fingers Click, What Is This?
Answer: It's a wooden tapping hand toy. Not very common, but not rare.
Andrew Gibb 5 years ago
they are called 'Automatia' very cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9bGY0PvmCg
#77
A Miniature Mask I Found In Nz. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Balinese ‘yawning’ dance mask. It looks like a miniature version of the actual masks used in Balinese dance performances
#78
This Pole Suddenly Popped Up In My Local Park, Anyone Know What It Is?
Answer: Surveillance system. The round thing with the cooling fins is a LiDAR a laser sensor, made by a company called Ouster. Probably used for detecting people, objects etc. also in the dark.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
And, of course, the spiked disc at the bottom was to prevent people from scaling the pole to take out the camera.
Cra-Z cat lady 5 years ago
No, No, No! It's secretly a robotic death pole! Lock your doors and windows!
#79
Bag Of Water With What Looks Like A Penny Nailed Above A Shop Door In California. What Is This Thing?
Answer: That's to stop flys from entering.
Doesn't work, but people still believe it.
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
The theory behind this is distorting the flies view so they won't fly near it, at least that's what I've been told. Never done any actual research on these though.
Jon S. 5 years ago
The sparkling light is supposed to disorientate the fly and encourage them to stay away
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AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
omg I actually knew this one lol. And it does work but it has to hang down from the actual doorway not next to it
#80
What Are These Dollar Signs On My Level For?
Answer: That is an electrician level. An S with a line through it is the electricians symbol for switch
MCathenaE 5 years ago
I'm thinking you would use it to make sure the switch you are installing is level. Slide the switch(s) into the slot & read the bubbles like a normal level.
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#81
What Is This Thing On The Top Of The Suv ? Part Of A Motorcade Of A High Ranking Government Official
Answer: The term I've seen used is "roadrunner". It's a radio platform to coordinate communications among the convoy and with outside agencies. I'd wager the short, wide cylinder at the rear is a dome for a satcom antenna, and the rest being various FM antennas.
Sai Boppana 5 years ago
Its a jammer. To Prevent Remote triggering of explosives by using mobiles.
#82
Weird Looking Thing Found In A Rockpool. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Hilti 500 epoxy, it sets under water
Magpie 5 years ago
But how / why did it get there? And is it toxic to small things living there ?
Steve 5 years ago
It is glue that comes in a caulk tube. You have nothing to worry about.
Load More Replies... WhatsUpKittyCat? (I wuv dogs too) 5 years ago
At first sight I thought it was fossilised intestines.
#83
Friend Bought A New (To Him) House, There’s One Of These In Each Bathroom. Don’t Appear To Be Connected To Anything
Answer: It’s an umbra illuzine magazine rack. I worked at a store that used to sell them. They also came in stainless steel. You hang the magazine by the spine over the rails
#84
Found This Inside A Snowboard Boot I Bought Off This Guy On Craigslist. What Is This Thing?
Answer: That's a dugout. Skiers best friend. Holds your hitter and a stash.
Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Had to be totally weed free to not know this one. This stash box style is super common.
Motherofdogs 5 years ago
A hitter is an already-rolled spliff, a stash is somewhere to store weed.
Load More Replies... Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
I don't do drugs and I figured it out... rather crude contraption, though, possibly home-made?
Hannah Marshall 5 years ago
Dugouts, also known as taster boxes, are a type of box that holds both your tobacco and a one-hitter pipe for smoking it and are the perfect device for beginners and veterans alike.
Andrea Anthony 5 years ago
I smoke, but still had to ask my husband the mechanics of this. he totally knew lol.
#85
This Weird Machine I Saw On Gilmore Girls. What Is This Thing?
Answer: A scale.
#86
A Specific Type Of Hammer, From My Work At A College In Scotland
Answer: Blacksmith hammers have different style of peens depending on the task you want to accomplish. There are straight peen (if you held the hammer by the handle the peen would be paralell to the ground), cross peen (perpendicular to the ground) and diagonal peen (the one you have taken an image of).
#87
Mystery Ceramic Or Porcelain Piece Found On Beach In Cancale, France
Answer: When you hold it up to a bright light, is it translucent? Porcelain will be translucent, while other types of ceramic earthenware will not be.
When you run your fingers or a nail over the blue detailing, does it feel noticeably raised or like you could scratch it (as opposed to a relatively smooth surface)? If so, it is likely blue transferware, a later style which developed to more efficiently replace hand painting by transferring a design onto the piece. If instead it’s smooth and not translucent, then it likely is faience ware (Delftware).
Based on the image, color, and size, I would say it’s more likely to be transferware than Delftware.
Additionally, even if it was Delftware, that doesn’t necessarily indicate Dutch origin, as similar styles of delftware were also produced in England and other places (known as English delftware)
Thomas 5 years ago
Obéissance is derived from the verb obéir (to obey), it's the act of obeying rules; you could loosely translate it as 'follow the rules and have discipline'
Magpie 5 years ago
What do the words mean? ... google translate tells me obesity and discipline ??? and why are those words on a ? plate ? vase ?
Jon S. 5 years ago
Looks like the rim of a plate or platter to me. It was very common for ships, businesses and even social groups to have large custom decorated platters for the centre of their table spread. 'Obedience and discipline' puts me in mind of the military, although other virtues could have been listed on the rest of the plate.
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Found Outside My University. Seems To Have Some Sort Of Laser Apparatus Inside. I Can Take It For Free. Should I?
Answer: That is a vacuum chamber used for material science research. You read up on "Molecular Beam Epitaxy". I have used these systems. Though they look cool, A lot of exotic materials like Gallium, Cadmium, Indium are typically used. It is not a good idea to move to your house were you might be tempted to touch the inside of it. If you can cut plexi glass circle so close out all the vents, it could make a cool decoration. There is a metal shroud on the inside through which water or liquid nitrogen could be circulated to cool down the system. If that shroud develops a leak, then usually the system is discarded. Also due to cross contamination issues, when a project is closed/abandoned the chamber used also gets thrown out.
Dutch VanZandt 5 years ago
Great minds... I'd take it home and sell it to a scrap yard pronto.
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#89
Bought These In A Second Hand Store In Japan. They Have Hallowed Our Stomachs I Thought Maybe For Incense But They Don’t Have A Flat Back To Lay Down. They Do Have Ropes To Hang Them Up Though.
Answer: They’re called a Slit Drum or Slit Gong. ) Yours are just missing the strikers and you don’t see them painted often because it can affects the sounds.
Tarjo T 5 years ago
Exacly! When there is a crime, people will hit the kenthongan using a a striker (a wooden stick). People all around will gather to the scene.
Load More Replies... Andrea Anthony 5 years ago
the "hallowed our stomachs" typo really freaked me out for a hot second.
Two Silly Pups 5 years ago
Bringing a weird looking unknown object from a small thrift shop somewhere in Japan - this sounds like a beginning of a horror movie!
#90
Spotted On Top Of A Small Rv. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Its an old type areal antenna for TV. Its design is indeed a Yagi array
Jenny Gordon 5 years ago
It must have been someone quite young to not recognise that as a tv aerial.
#91
In My School We Have These Bins. There Is A Plate A Sandwich A Chicken/Turkey Leg And Then What?
Answer: Ecotensil paper spoon
#92
Found On An Iwo Jima Landing Beach. What Is This Thing?
Answer: a cable spool
#93
Someone Found This Thing In The Garage Of A Family Member. No Clue What It Is.
Answer: Fistula arm clamp.
#94
Went Hiking In Massachusetts. Found This Huge “Staircase” About 20 Feet Tall. Completely Flat On The Other Side. What Could It Be?
Answer: an old mill building from the 1870s that still operates as residential housing
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Beautiful place for taking pictures. Bride on top of the stairs would make great wedding photos.
#95
I Have Only This Photo. What Kind Of A Device Is This?
Answer: Blaupunkt made a gooseneck equalizer in the 80s.
When car audio really took off in the early-mid 80s a lot of vehicles still had the old stereos with two shafts that stuck through the dash, one for volume and one for tuning. A separate equalizer was pretty much a requirement for a more sophisticated system, but there just wasn't anywhere to mount a typical half DIN EQ in a lot of vehicles. This was one solution to that problem. The EQ functions were on the face, and the sliders on the right side let you control balance and fade.
#96
The Apartment I’m Staying At In Granada, Spain Have These All Over By The Baseboards, Like Where There Would Be Outlets In The Us. My Friends From Madrid Had Also Never Seen Them. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Double heating pipe trim. Ideal to cover the tubes seen from the radiators. They are to cover tubes in the wall where you would plug a towel dryer radiator for example.
J-Yogi-Temp-Mom 5 years ago
I still don't understand. Is it used for anything or just used to cover something?
Motherofdogs 5 years ago
Pipes would come through hole in wall & go through the hole in the trim, I guess they're added to make badly drilled holes look tidier/block drafts coming through the gaps.
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Fell From The Sky - Made 15ft Hole - Metal Object About 3ft Long, 30kg. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Going to bet it's a locking pawl from a windlass, the winch that raises and lowers they anchor chain
Carol Emory 5 years ago (edited)
Actually, that's a Tailhook from a jet that lands on aircraft carriers. It drags behind the aircraft on approach and snags the cable that helps the jet slow down instead of skidding off the end of the aircraft carrier. I hope this didn't mean a pilot was unable to land.....
similarly 5 years ago
Your answer sounds more plausible since it dropped from the sky. Can't figure why an anchor chain windlass would drop from the sky.
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Hugo Raible 5 years ago
Interesting mix of units. Shouldn't mass be "kidney stones of a pregrant Grizzly" in imperial units?
#98
Have Never Seen One Of These Before. 28uk Wondering If This Was Us Thing?
Answer: It's a Hitclip
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
*Air-fives from a safe internet distance* same.
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Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
It was basically a mini player. They only played one song and the chip thing that you put in there looks like a camera memory card. It would have 1 song from a huge group, hence the Hit part. It was small and clipped to your clothing. Really just a tiny 1 track player. It wasn't around for too terribly long. I remember others having them but I don't think I ever actually owned one that I can remember.
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Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
Does anyone remember 'cassingles'? (cassettes with a single song on them, like a 45 record).
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kitty.boom 5 years ago
I learned a lot from this post and reading the comments too. It's interesting and amazing.
Sergio Bicerra 5 years ago
I was once on the country side of my city. Was playing with little round fruit left in the ground. Spoiler: it wasn't. It was sheep poop.
kitty.boom 5 years ago
I learned a lot from this post and reading the comments too. It's interesting and amazing.
Sergio Bicerra 5 years ago
I was once on the country side of my city. Was playing with little round fruit left in the ground. Spoiler: it wasn't. It was sheep poop.
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