When we get situated in a new work environment or club, there are going to be a few idiosyncrasies that will probably startle and confuse us.
But when you open a door and jump at the skeleton with the pirate hat that’s sitting on the other side of it, you can generally expect everyone else to be pretty casual about it.
“Oh yeah, that’s Charlie,” they’ll say as they walk by, idly stirring their coffee. And while it may take a while to get used to Charlie, it won’t be long until you’re just as casually explaining him to the next person who joins the team.
But sometimes, we may find ourselves coming across something that even the old pros didn’t know about. And as we’re about to see, it’s possible that it was there just as long as Charlie was.
When some core drilling was done on this motor speedway in Indianapolis, it turned out the asphalt was more like a tree than people realized.
By that, I mean, you could essentially tell its age from how many layers of pavement was resting under the surface all along.
Apparently, we’re looking at 108 years of repaving here.
While on a run, the uploader came across this rock painted to look like a ladybug.
Apparently, whoever left it here had also left “never judge a bug by its cover” written underneath it. That run also revealed a similar rock that looked like a penguin with “ice to meet you” written on it.
It’s hard to tell how long they had been there or who put them there, but they’ll probably be landmarks in that area if they aren’t already.
When somebody bought this *Home Alone*-themed flannel, they apparently didn’t realize just how closely it would stick to the theme.
I can’t say I usually read my buttons so I’d likely never notice it said “ya filthy animal” if I owned this.
It’s a neat little Easter egg.
Sometimes things are only able to hide in plain sight because we’re not seeing them under the right light.
For instance, it turns out that each Canadian passport is secretly hiding an array of colors that are only visible if you shine a black light on it.
That has to be the most aesthetically pleasing way to thwart counterfeiters I’ve ever seen.
This museum decidated to the East German Stasi has a stamp running across its roofs and the ground in front of it that’s only visible from above.
Since it was once the administrative building for the East German Secret Service, that stamp resembles an official marking that employees here would have once stamped on legal documents.
It says “received on” with a dotted line where the date would normally go.
As we can see here, someone else made a fascinating discovery while out on a run, this time in Finland.
But while it’s conceivable that someone would move that ladybug rock we saw earlier, this “pregnant tree” seems like a much more permanent fixture.
We tend to pay more attention to how toilet paper feels than how it looks but that can lead us to miss some details.
As the uploader put it, “Just noticed I’ve been wiping my butt with rabbits and grass this whole time.”
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They weren’t really clear on how they felt about this revelation, though.
This person thought their dryer was acting up but they eventually discovered the dryer wasn’t the problem at all.
Instead, it appeared that a sock had managed to get stuck in just the right place to gum up the works all along. At least that seems like an easier (not to mention cheaper) fix.
While on a nature trail, the uploader came across a sight that wasn’t quite so natural.
I’m guessing this has been like this for a while but I’m curious as to whether the pipe was always green or whether someone painted it like this just so they could add Mario to it.
I just want to know who deserves the credit for this.
Vending machines can have some weird options in them sometimes but this is a new one on me.
Apparently, this one gives you the option to buy a can of Vienna sausages that’s paired with a packet of crackers.
I wonder how long those have been sitting there.
It’s obvious that whoever designed this Volvo was well aware that the plastic molding they installed looked like a web.
At least, it’s obvious now because somebody discovered this whimsical little spider engraved in it. I wonder if they ever expected anyone to notice.
Either a bizarrely spceific event occurred more than once or this inner core of a golf ball had a long journey before it could see the world again.
Apparently, the uploader’s dog ate this two years before this was taken, but only threw it back up the day before the photo.
So either she managed to eat two completely different golf balls or this one was hiding inside of her for all that time. Either way, those are pretty incredible circumstances.
This Brooklyn resident recently found out their neighborhood was living a lie all along.
They thought the walls around them were made of brick and that the graffiti was authentic, but it turns out that it was all just really convincing wallpaper.
In that case, I bet these tags don’t even mean anything.
This little bee stone isn’t just a cute decoration but part of a little community game.
According to one commenter , those who find stones like this (they don’t always feature a bee drawing) are expected to search their town with the word “rocks” next to it on Facebook and post a picture of where they found it as this person did.
Then they’re supposed to hide it somewhere else. This encourages people to explore more of their towns.
Sometimes the fun secrets around us aren’t under our noses but above our heads.
As this tweet explains, that seems to be the case for this ancient Roman roof tile that finally broke off in modern Vienna. It may have taken longer than they expected but whoever made this was right.
We always appreciate truth in advertising but we rarely see people take it this seriously.
I doubt most of us would notice that this only fills our bottles 2.8 times over but the precision is appreciated nonetheless.
The uploader discovered this message in a bottle literally built into the wall.
And honestly, I have my doubts that they’re the first to find this but I also think nobody wanted to go to the trouble of breaking the bottle open to see what the note says.
Especially if it just turns out to say, “Ha ha, you wasted a lot of time doing this.”
As the uploader put it, “I just found a crab in a shell that I have had for at least 4 years.”
And by that, they mean that this crab has been laying in here for the entire four years they’ve had this shell.
If that’s the case, was it dead when they found the shell or was it crawling around their house at night until fairly recently? We may never know.
This is apparently just one example of the little folks you can find at the Hattiesburg Pocket Museum.
Although it seems like it would be hard for such a place to exist under our noses, it really is just set up in an alley in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
And I hope that most people respect these wishes because the world can’t afford to lose something so charming.
As the uploader said, “My parents found this while cleaning out their medicine cabinet.. I’m pretty sure you can’t legally sell this anymore.”
Considering this tonic seems to have a very high percentage of alcohol and some ether and chloroform in it, I don’t think it so much cures what ails you as it does zonk you out so much that you forget you were even sick.
And yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone would get in big trouble for selling this now.
