32 Rare Pics Capturing Things That We Didn't Know Could Happen

It turns out that all it took for this nest to exists was for the wasps involved to come across some sheets of construction paper.

Despite how common that material is, however, I can't say I've ever seen a nest like this. Maybe they only go for it if it's the only paper available?

As far why somebody would brick up a tree, it's supposed to be a way to keep it propped up after the tree has sustained some serious damage.

This could be because it was struck by lighting, but there are likely a host of other possible reasons.

Instead, it seems that this water spill was both large enough and positioned at the right angle to allow the face on a nearby screen to reflect perfectly in it.

Yes, this person really did have such a vibrant and bright rainbow appear in their room.

Once the sun hit their fish tank the right way, it created this awesome effect. That sort of thing isn't so unheard of, but the results are usually a little fainter.

But indeed, it's not hard to see what's so amazing about the fact that it coiled into the shape we usually associate with something much more unpleasant to look at.

It's possible to guide the growth of a tree into specific directions and even into bending patterns, but I can't even imagine what you'd need to do to make a branch grow itself into a knot.

Yet, if you were to head into the right ice cave in Argentinian Patagonia, this is exactly what you could expect to find.

However, this couple apparently examined each other's arms closely enough to realize they both had the same exact freckle pattern on them.

And before anyone asks, they confirmed through separate DNA tests that they're not related.

Winter apparently hit this area hard enough that the base actually froze into this intimidating patch of icicles.

And no, I don't imagine that'll be good for the tree.

It took a long time for me to stop seeing the blue area between the road and the mountains as part of the sky, but it's actually a body of water.

That mind-bending effect makes this mountainside scene even more lovely, doesn't it?

The cool pattern makes it look like someone deliberately painted this rock this way, but this is just how lichens happened to settle on it.

There have to be enough of footholds in this brick wall to make this possible, but they're also subtle enough that only a creature as impossibly sure-footed as a mountain goat could make use of them.

In case the impression of the nose isn't enough of a giveaway, we're actually looking at an unborn puppy.

As far as we can tell, this yellow pole is the result of egg yolk dripping down and freezing into this position.

But the only question is where exactly it dripped from because it seems taller than both the cartons and it didn't poke through the bottom one.

Not only does it turn out that the bean sprouts they use are capable of growing out if you leave them alone, but it turns out that the styrofoam can bring about greenhouse-like conditions to accelerate this process.

That's how this spring roll went from a snack to a makeshift garden in just four days.

Whatever the logic behind this design choice however, I suppose it allows the sign to convey its message for longer than it otherwise would.

As weird as it looks, we can still see that we're supposed to stop.

For instance, in case you've ever wondered what the underside of a lily pad looks like, here's your answer.

Yeah, it turns out they have stems.

It's not too much of a stretch to assume that the underside of a lily pad would look like a lot of other plants, but I'm not sure too many of us expected spider plants to have ghostly fingers for roots.

Spotted frogs and spotted turtles may come from completely different classes of animals, but they look like they were cut from the same cloth.

This ancient relative of the lark from the Ice Age looked so good that its discovers initially believed it had died recently.

In reality, it's about 46,000-years-old.

This is the scene in a parking lot outside a chemical plant that recently caught fire. I don't know if the chemicals made conditions extra-melty or what, but that car is toast.

Anyone of a certain age can marvel at how USB thumb sticks have gone from holding one gigabyte to multiple terabytes, but an image like this really drives home how dramatically miniaturized components have become.

These two tanks are full of basically the same stuff and contain the same ecosystem, save for one critical ingredient. The tank on the right contains oysters, while the tank on the left doesn't.

The delicate patterns seen in the sand actually show the vibrations of an earthquake that hit Olympia, Washington back in 2001. You can only imagine the kind of shaking that would cause the pendulum to move like that.

I don't want to accuse these blueberries of taking steroids, but I can't think of another explanation for how they'd get that big. I mean, it's not like I wouldn't eat them.

It's common knowledge that, among life's infinite possibilities, eggs sometimes contain other eggs. But it isn't until you see this in the real world, in hardboiled form no less, that it really sinks in.

I once lived on the top floor of an apartment building with a leaky roof. Sometimes we'd get soft pockets of leaking water above the ceiling. This, though, is a nightmare scenario. What if somebody just popped it?

This keychain doesn't need batteries, because it literally uses radioactivity to emit light. Because tritium takes a long time to decay, it'll be glowing for a long time to come.

Bamboo isn't wood at all, but a type of grass. Most people probably imagine bamboo forests looking like regular forests, but they actually look more like this scene from Japan.

Because things in orbit are moving very, very fast, even the tiniest bit of debris can be deadly. This shows the impact of a tiny half-ounce piece of plastic hitting a spacecraft at 15,000 miles per hour.

There's no filter in this photo. It doesn't even look like a filter; it looks like someone placed a red colored gel over the camera lens. It's hard to fathom the landscape looking like this.

Not only is this unusual, but some optometrists who commented on it say that it's a sign the lenses aren't safe to wear.

One suggested that this happened because some oil got on the lens, possibly from a hand lotion.

I'd never thought about what a fire hose looked like in super slow motion, but this perfectly timed photo shows how multiple high-powered jets combine to create one super-high-powered jet of water.