I trust I never trip up upon the sweaty polypore fungus in real life .
Everything feels like it’s constantly changing these days, but one thing that always stays the same is humans finding weird little doodads we can’t quite identify. Lucky for us, ther/whatisthisthingsubreddit is ready and willing to help. Here are 49 finds from the sub and what they turned out to be:
1.This interesting ring someone found while gardening in their backyard:
2.This chair with incredibly long arms found in a thrift store:
3.This rock with an embedded pattern that was found in Pennsylvania:
4.This random wooden door found in a forest in Germany:
5.This wooden box with a large magnifying glass and mount of some kind:
6.This medal someone found glued inside a book while cleaning out a relative’s house:
7.These tiny ivory slabs with the days of the week printed on them:
8.This hard, liquid-covered glob found in a forest in Sweden:
9.This metal tag someone found while digging in their garden in Indianapolis, Indiana:
10.This bell-like structure at the top of a Victorian-era brick building:
11.This pair of wooden handles with canvas straps rolled up on each end:
12.This sharp, metal antique medical tool:
13.This rusty old metal item found in a river in central France:
14.This expandable circle with a lid that holds it together:
15.This pair of hinged spoons found in a thrift store:
16.This box containing an instrument of some kind found at an antique store:
17.This thin, metal rod with a tiny handle that was dropped off at a thrift store:
18.This tiny, colorful dial with a wheel at the bottom:
19.This Brunswick-branded wooden device with ribbed detailing that has a lightbulb inside:
20.This small, curved metal blade with a tiny sheath:
21.This corroded, round piece of metal with writing on top:
22.This 18-inch tall heavy metal item featuring a round piece of glass:
23.This pointy metal tool with a metal handle that was found at a thrift store:
24.This pair of heavy metal legs that contain screw holes:
25.This metal device found in central Kentucky:
26.These steel hoops outside of people’s front doors in Bordeaux, France:
27.This tray made of paper pulp, which the owner believed was related to embalming:
28.This little tiny pocket on the back of this shirt:
29.This lightweight, polished wooden object:
30.This foot-wide metal pyramid found in North Yorkshire in the United Kingdom:
31.This tiny metal cube someone had found on the ground 15 years earlier:
32.This clear tube full of tiny, plastic, non-magnetic metal discs:
33.This pen with a digital display of some type:
34.This round disc found at the bottom of the sea:
35.These metal, mesh wire boxes without any doors or flaps:
36.This tiny funnel and scoop found in a jewelry box in Florida:
37.This mechanical object which had been badly burned in a fire:
38.This oddly-shaped chrome item with what appear to be a set of rubber handles:
39.These clear, jelly-like blobs found in the woods in western Germany:
40.This set of hinged metal claws with a hook inside found at a flea market in Paris:
41.This 2.5" tall plastic, magnetic sculpture of a woman found in a vintage shop in Austin, Texas:
42.This highly insulated glove with a hole through the middle of the hand that was made in Australia:
43.This device with Russian writing found in an antique shop in Australia:
44.This amber-colored vial filled with liquid in a leather-corded pouch found in a shipwreck:
45.This metal ring covered in blueish plastic someone found melted in the bottom of their oven:
46.This metal plate on the baseboard of an old house:
47.This round metal ball with a hole on one side:
48.This wooden barrel strapped to a tree in Yorkshire, England:
49.And finally, this cast iron plaque found in the doorway of an apartment closet in Oakland, California:
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