The world is full of wondrous things, and we are led to believe that every piece of it serves a purpose. Even the most obscure objects and findings that don’t seem to fit any category. Or do they?
Luckily, for these curious instances, there’s a bunch of Sherlock Holmes sitting right behind their computer screens ready to tackle any mysterious stuff people have stumbled upon. Yes, we’re talking Reddit’s beloved corner called “What Is This Thing” that has a solid 1.9 million followers and has been steadily growing since its creation in 2010.
#41 These Appeared In My Friends Back Yard, They Are Gelatinous But Start To Dissolve When You Start Touching Them
Answer: Looks like water beads / plant gel. They're a kind of gel-like ball that absorb water and are used in plant pots. They get bloated and will burst if in water for too long.
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105points
#42 Saw This Bulldozer With A Giant Spike On The Front In A Meme. Is This A Weird Forklift? Why Does It Only Have 1 Spike Then? Is This Possibly To Push Around A Very Specific Type Of Equipment?
Answer: We have one similar to that at work. The spike is a little bigger and longer, but we use it for moving steel coils around the coil yard.
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#43 What Is The Use Of This Fourth Piece Of Cutlery I've Seen In A German Museum?
Answer: It's a baby food pusher, quite common in the 1800s - early 1900s
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100points
#44 This Item In Our Kitchen? We're Not Quite Sure What It Is
Answer: It's a pastry cutter.
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#45 Found While Trail Running. What Are These Things? There's Rotten Wood That Goes Along It That Looks Cut/Altered By Man. Would It Be For Making A Flat Surface To Easily Maneuver The Mine?
Answer: It's a collapsed wood-stave pipeline, it may have been for dewatering the mine
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95points
#46 At The Beach In Southern Ca. Alive With Claw Things That Moved In Purple Sheathes. Bubbly Body. A Feather Stuck To It????? (Screenshot From Video)
Answer: Looks like a cluster of goose barnacles with a random feather in there
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94points
#47 Found On A Hike Up A Hill In South Dakota. The Eye Does Not Appear Natural, But I Am Not Sure What Caused It
Answer: Mineral deposition within the rock that has dissolved over a long period of time
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92points
#48 Door With A Hinged Section A Quarter Through Horizontally?
Answer: I think it was an attempt to wrap around the wall but the cut was made on the wrong side of the door!
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79points
#49 I Work In A Restaurant, We Had A Customer Complaining That They Found That In Our Chicken - It's Not A Part Of Any Equipment We Have In Store. Any Ideas?
Answer: Wrench Cutout Wrap
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68points
#50 An Excessive Amount Of (Chimneys, Various Vents?) On A House In Castile De Leon, Spain
Answer: Those are air ducts and the the flue for gas central heating. A third one is almost certainly for the garage. That building is subdivided into at least 2 apartments. Could be three. Our apartment has one for each for each vertical block of apartments. As in a flue duct and an air duct. You need a separate duct for the garage area as well it can't be on the same one. You can see the dividing line in the tiles here as well so one side was probably built a while after the other and so they couldn't share the center ducting or the garage. Find it on google maps and see how many house numbers are there. Could be four.
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66points
