Life is full of surprises. Of course, we can’t pick and choose; one day they come in the form of an arrowhead in a dried up stream, the next it’s a death mask under the bedroom floor. We just have to keep our eyes open. That’s the only thing in our power, really.

Luckily, the subreddit r/MildlyInteresting has plenty of perfect examples that good things happen when we do. Many of its 19 million members have shared photos of unexpected finds they came across pretty much everywhere you can imagine.

Continue scrolling to check out the ones that have impressed us at Bored Panda the most and fire up our earlier publication for more astonishing discoveries.

#1 Found This On A Bench In Margate UK This Weekend

“Dedicated to – HAYDEN KAYS. Forever missed by his friends and family. – He’s not dead yet. He’s just become increasingly anti-social.”

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#2 Found Amethyst Pieces In A New Gravel Driveway

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#3 We Found A Missile While Out Blueberry Picking

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#4 Found While Out Deer Hunting In The Middle Of Nowhere

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#5 My Mom And Uncle Found A USAF Target Drone On The Beach

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#6 This Massive Bald Eagle Feather I Found

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#7 Worth It

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#8 My Dog Found A Huge Bone At The Beach Today

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#9 Clam Covered Mannequin Head That Washed Up On Shore

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#10 You Never Know What You Will Find When You Pick Up A Shell At Honeymoon Beach, Florida. Little Dude Was Put Safely Back In The Water

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#11 Geologist Finds Rare Formation Inside Rock That Looks Exactly Like Cookie Monster On Sesame Street

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#12 This Morning I Found A Bat Sleeping In My Window… Inside The Screen

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#13 A Cast Iron Cauldron I Found Buried In My Forest

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#14 This Giant Dandelion I Found On My Walk Today

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#15 Found An Unopened PS1 In My Grandfather’s Attic

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#16 I Came Across These Theropod Tracks While Fly Fishing In Leander, Texas

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#17 I Found A Box Of My Dads 30-35 – Year – Old Sodas There Are Probably 50 In There And I Thought It Would Be Cool To Share

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#18 This Rattlesnake Was Found Bathing In The Puddle Created From A Cow Hoofprint

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#19 Found This ‘Veiled Lady’ Mushroom On A Hike This Morning Near Seoul, South Korea

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#20 Gifted A Bonsai Tree, Found An Egg Near The Trunk – This Little One Hatched From It Today

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#21 Older Roman Mosaic Under A Layer Of Less Older Roman Mosaic – Found In Greece

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#22 Friend Bought A N64 Game, Found This Inside

For those of you wondering, he was taking this game apart to use the back on his JP copy of Mario Kart so he could take it to a friend’s house with unmodded N64’s. As to why he didn’t hear the pills loose shaking around, they were stuck to the sides with double-sided tape. You can see that in the image. The tape itself also looks old. He bought the game a year or so ago, but the game itself was made in the late 90s so who knows how long this has been sitting in there.

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#23 Surreal Moment Today. I Went To Oaks, PA “Too Many Games” Expo. Found My Gameboy From Early 2000’s

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#24 Found An Arrowhead In A Dried Up Stream

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#25 A Gold Bar With Mint Marks, Recovered From The Spanish Treasure Ship ‘Atocha’ Which Sank In 1622

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#26 This Pixelated Leaf I Found

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#27 A Plane Crash I Hiked To In North Carolina

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#28 “McSpoon” That Was Banned In 1979 Turned Up In My Yard

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#29 This Strawberry I Found Is Shaped Like A Perfect Flower

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#30 Woman Finds Sunken Message In Bottle From 1926 Addressed To One George Morrow, The Internet Helps Find Surviving Relatives

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#31 My Mom’s Purse Was Stolen In The 80s At A Hiking Trailhead. Today Someone Messenged Her That They Found It Deep In The Woods. The Leather Was All Destroyed

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#32 I Came In My Kitchen To Find A Lizard Using A Sponge As A Raft In The Sink (I Live In New Mexico)

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#33 This Little Door I Found In The Trunk Of A Tree While Walking In Lowell

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#34 Found Some Old Newspapers In My Grandpa’s Basement

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#35 Found A Piece Of Rock That Looks Like A Steak

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#36 A Roman Road Discovered While Excavating For A New McDonald’s In Marino, Italy. They Incorporated A Glass Floor In The Restaurant After Excavations Were Complete

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#37 Water Levels At Lake Powell Are So Low You Can Find Old Wrecks Out Of The Water

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#38 My Friend Was Cleaning Out Her Grandma’s Belongings And Found This Old School Kit From The 70s

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#39 My Sister And Brother-In-Law Moved Into A New House Today, Found This Safe In The Floor And Can’t Open It. Yet

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#40 Coworker Found A “Motion Picture Use” $100 On Our Construction Site

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#41 I Found This Plant Growing Out Of The Concrete

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#42 Came Across This Spine And Pelvic Bone Hanging From A Tree Limb During My Hike Yesterday

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#43 This Gravestone I Found In The Woods

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#44 I Found A Pile Of Walnuts In My Car Engine

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#45 Found This Outside. Someone’s Day Will Be Ruined

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#46 A 130-Year-Old Crypt Found While Renovating A Church In Sc, They Put A Glass Window On It So You Could See The Face

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#47 This Purple Mushroom I Found

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#48 Old Cars Becoming The River Bank

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#49 It Has Been Family Lore That My Grandmother Had A Pet Raccoon Named Smokey. I Didn’t Believe It Until I Found Photographic Evidence. Late 40’s Or Early 50’s

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#50 I Found A Diamond In My Shoe While Working Out

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#51 This Caterpillar I Found

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#52 I Found This Leaf With Only Its ‘Veins’ Remaining

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#53 I Found A Bomb While On A Hike

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#54 Found This Rock With Odd-Shaped Hole

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#55 Found An E Than Survived The Recycling Process On The Cardboard We Use At Work

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#56 Bought A “Brand New” Jacket Online. Found This Inside The Pocket

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#57 Today I Found An Unexploded WWII Bomb

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#58 In 1945 My Great Grandmother Wrote Her Name In A Sidewalk. We Found It Again. She Is 93

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#59 My Son Found This At Goodwill And It Really Takes Me Back

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#60 I Found This In My Basement. I’m Pretty Sure It’s A Spider, But I Don’t Know How He Got Like That

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#61 I Found Plane Wreckage While Hiking In A State Park This Weekend

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#62 I Found A Letter From Richard Nixon From 1955 In My Grandfathers Stuff In Guatemala

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#63 Cleaning Out An Old Apartment And Found A 1982 Coca Cola Screwdriver Set

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#64 Went On A Walk, Fogged Up My Glasses, And Found This

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#65 The Note I Found In This Second-Hand Book

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#66 I Found This Locked Suitcase In The Back Of A Storage Closet At The Hotel Where I Work. I Pried It Open And It’s A Little Time Capsule

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#67 Friend’s Family Owned A Pharmacy. They Found This In The Basement Secret Corner That Collapsed In A Flood

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#68 I’m Going To Need A Loan To Pay The Late Fees For This Tape I Found In My Basement

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#69 I Found A Stack Of 10 Uncirculated Australian $1 Notes. These Were Discontinued By 1984

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#70 I Found A Dollar Bill With A Rotationally Symmetric Serial Number

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#71 Found A Tiny Greenhouse In The Woods

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#72 Ball Of Salt That I Took Out Of The Dead Sea

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#73 We Found A Death Mask Under Our Bedroom Floor. Now What?

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#74 We Found War Ration Books From 1944 Inside An Old Purse In The Basement

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#75 This Flat Fire Extinguisher I Found

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#76 Found This Thing On The Bottom Of My Pool

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#77 My Sister Got A Mini Starfish In Her Mussels

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#78 This Mushroom I Found 5 Years Ago

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#79 These Old Shaving Kits That I Found

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#80 A Pay Stub We Found While Renovating Our Home

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#81 Found Some Old Containers For Transporting Eyeballs

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#82 A Strange Mural Found After Removing The Paint In My Aunt’s New House

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#83 I Just Found 8 Four-Leaf Clovers In One Patch

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#84 We Found A Bud Inside A Bag Of Yarn We Bought At The Thrift Store

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#85 We Just Found Kittens In The Bushes Near Our House

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#86 This Long And Rectangular River Rock I Found

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#87 Found A Newspaper From 1998 And A Phone From The Same Era Left Alone On A Bench

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#88 Found A Dinosaur Footprint On Our Hike In Utah

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#89 Megalodon Teeth I Found Diving In 90 FSW Off The Coast Of North Carolina

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#90 Every Vauxhall Car Built Since 2004 Have A Hidden Shark Somewhere In The Car. Found Mine In The Glove Box

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#91 When Ripping Out My Ceiling Drywall I Found A Report Card From 1957 A Kid Must Have Hid Up There. Someone Failed The 8th Grade

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#92 A Receipt Found In A Book From 1992. Not A Vegetable In Sight

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#93 I’ve Found This Heart Shaped Potato In My Garden

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#94 Found Out Why The Roomba Quit Working

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#95 Old 3ds Found With Erosion And Barnacles Found While Diving

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#96 These Spring Shoes I Found At A Thrift Store Many Years Ago

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#97 This 1890-91 Colt 45 I Found Digging In My Yard

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#98 I Found This Stick And It Looks Like A Katana In The Shadows

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#99 I Found $10 While Scooping Sludge At My Wastewater Treatment Plant

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#100 Chrome Blue Wasp I Found In My Backyard

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#101 So This Is A Newly Discovered Ancient City Built 3000 Years Ago. West Old Thebes, Egypt

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#102 A Wildfire Ripped Through Waterton Lakes National Park In 2017. Found This Burn Pattern On A Tree There Last Month

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#103 I Stumbled Across This Car That’s Painted Half Black And Half White

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#104 I Found A Bird’s Nest In A Tree Trunk While Taking A Walk

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#105 My Friend Works In Mines And Found A Mummified Mountain Lion

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#106 I Found Jewish Ghetto Coin From 1943

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#107 I Found A Frozen Snake

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#108 Found This Steel Plate In My Papa John’s

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#109 Megalodon Tooth I Found In A Dirty Florida Creek

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#110 Found In An Old Book

From the 1940s. Not sure if they’re paycheques, or what, but $8.92 doesn’t seem like a lot these days! 

 

The weirdest thing (besides the fact that they survived this long) is, they’re from Nebraska, and here I am on the east coast of Canada!

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#111 This Silver Pin I Found Metal Detecting Is Called A Luckenbooth Brooch. Scottish Tradition But Likely Traded With Native Americans 300 Years Ago

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#112 My Mum Found This Bird Skull In Our Plant Pot

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#113 My Friend Found This Guy At Work

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#114 Found My Kid’s Watch He Lost 3 Months Ago

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#115 I Found A Pile Of Snail Shells In My Car Engine

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#116 Found A Doll’s Head While Diving In An Adirondack Lake. Left It In The Freezer To Surprise The Next Visitors To Our Timeshare

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#117 Dug Up A Very Old Orange Crush Can In My Garden Yesterday

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#118 I Found My Doppelganger. On A Thrifted T-Shirt, 2,700 Miles Away

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#119 Jar Of Ash From Mountain St Helen. Found In My Sister-In-Law’s Garage

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#120 Looked Through A Patch Of Clovers Before Mowing The Lawn, I Found 16 Four-Leaf Clovers

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#121 A Pay Phone! In The Middle Of Muir Woods, San Francisco Bay Area

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#122 1866 Penny Found In Wall Of My Old House During Renovation

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#123 This 7-Leaf Clover I Just Found

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#124 New House Find, Do You Think It’ll Play Crysis? It Doesn’t Seem To Have Any Problems Playing Rust

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#125 A Family Member Found This In His Father’s Things He Saved From The War

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#126 A Triumph Motor Stuck In A Tree I Found While Walking

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#127 Found Over 30 Vapes And A Bunch Of Other Trash While Diving With My Best Friend

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#128 I Found An Unopened Can Of Beer From 1954 At A Job Today

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#129 This Useless Staircase I Found In The Wild

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#130 Found Some Unopened Pokémon Cards From 20 Years Ago While Going Through My Grandparents Stuff

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#131 Found My Dad’s Old Phone

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#132 Found This Cool Moss Covered Shoe In The Woods

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#133 Approximately 167 – Year – Old Garlic I Found Under The Floor Of My Half-Timbered House

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#134 Found A Hundred And Thirty Year Old Recipe Book While Cleaning Out Grandmas House

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#135 Remodeling My 1918 Home And Found This Battery In The Wall

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#136 Found This In Garbage. This Is A Postcard That Is About 100 Years Old, With Mark That Originates In A Country Which Existed For 2 Years. I Find This Very Interesting

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#137 I Found This Perfectly Mummyfied/Dried Frog On A Hike

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#138 Found A Check From 1879 For $105 In My Dresser That I Inherited From My Grandfather

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#139 Cleaned Out My Closet And Found My Unopened Star Wars Trilogy VHS That I Bought In 1995

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#140 Woke Up This Morning To Find An Interesting (Natural) Ice Sculpture In The Garden

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#141 My Husband Found A Pre-WWII Globe At Goodwill

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#142 I Found A Weirdly Bent Banana

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#143 Found This Old Memory Module At Work Today

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#144 My Girlfriend Found This Rock That Looks Like A Moustache

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#145 Found In A Crystal Shop In Sedona, AZ

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#146 My Friend Found This Paystub From 1949 For A Machinist. $1.17/Hour, 2021 Inflation: $13.13/Hour

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#147 Found This 1829 Silver Half-Dime In The Woods. Nickels Weren’t Invented Yet

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#148 I Was Cleaning And Found This Ancient Relic Under My TV Stand

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#149 Found An Overdue Rental At My Mom’s House From 1994

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#150 Found A WWII Nazi Spoon At Goodwill

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#151 Found An Original Glass Bottle Of Crystal Pepsi, With Foam Label, While Cleaning Out My Mother-In-Law’s Place

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#152 There Were (Literally) Whole Grains In My Son’s Cheerios

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#153 Things I Find In Printers As A Printer Technician

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#154 This Oddly Shaped Rock I Found At A Lake

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#155 Found Another Crotal (Or Scrotal) Bell

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#156 Pocket Watch Found Amongst My Late Husband’s Things

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#157 This Movie Prop Money I Found On The Street

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#158 Found A Lil Wasp Nest

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#159 Was Flipping Through A Review Book In The Condo We’re Renting And Came Across This Drawing

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#160 Found Lizard Milk For The First Time In Years

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#161 Found This Little Old Globe That Has The USSR

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#162 Finding This Japanese Condiment Jar Washed Up On The Oregon Coast

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#163 A Rock My Brother And I Found That Looks Like It Was Struck By Lightning

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#164 Found A Four-Leaf Clover In An Old Book Of Poetry From 1889

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#165 I Found An Exactly 23-Year-Old Newspaper Sitting On A Park Bench Yesterday

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#166 Found On Beach In Seaside, Oregon

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#167 Grandfather’s Odds And Ends Tin Full Of Vintage Packages (And Hardware)

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#168 This Shark Tooth I Found On The Beach

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#169 This Almost Perfectly Egg-Shaped Stone I Found In My Garden

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#170 This Twin Rose I Found While Gardening

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#171 This 70-Year-Old Japanese Picture I Found At A Estate Sale

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#172 A Bottle Of 1970s Aftershave, Found Buried In My Backyard

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#173 Dentures Found Inside An Abandoned Asylum

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#174 Found Some Weimar Hyper-Inflation Banknotes While Going Through An Old Trunk

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#175 The Birds By My House Line Their Nests With Fur From My Great Pyrenees

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#176 We’re Cleaning Out My Late Stepmom’s Storage Unit And Found Some Crayons From Before I Was Born

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#177 This Weirdly Shaped Strawberry I Found In My Garden Today

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#178 My 4-Year-Old Found Three 4-Leaf Clovers

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#179 Cleaning Out My Parents Basement And I Found Bottles Of Water They Saved During Y2K

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#180 This Tiny Pickle I Found At The Bottom Of The Jar

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