It's easy enough to just Google those random head-scratching questions that pop into your head, but what do you do when you find something out on a hike or tucked away in your attic that you don't recognize? Because those things do worm their way into your brain, another sort of mystery that demands to be solved.
Well, you could do far worse than consulting Reddit's r/whatisthisthing community. They bring to bear the experience and knowledge of more than a million eagle-eyed users, and they can recognize some startlingly obscure looking things with remarkable accuracy, and they make it look easy.
Just check out these impressive solves.