15 People That Found Something Unusual, and Had to Tell Everyone About It
Curiosities
03/07/2020

Forrest Gump said, “My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” The people from our article must’ve gotten the amazing chocolates because they saw something completely unexpected and took pictures to prove it.
1. “This book nook my mother got on eBay”
2. “I was replacing a battery which was causing me issues, so I decided I might as well make the back of my phone transparent. I used razor blades and only lost half my sanity and some blood in the process. Worth it!”
3. “The town we vacationed in has red street lights as not to mess with the wildlife.”
This is so turtles hatching from eggs on the beach don’t confuse the street lights for the moon and are able to head straight for the ocean.
4. Wooden Lego toys
5. “These sprinklers on the road near the ski resort I’m at in Japan keep the road from freezing over.”
6. “This is the mouse hole we put in the wall when we gutted our house. The light inside is motion activated and the wallpaper is vintage from a flea market in England.”
7. This Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems collection kind of tells you what’s inside...
8. Just an average winter day in Decorah, Iowa
9. What you get when you don’t cook pancakes on the stove but use a rice cooker instead
10. “5,000 meters up in Peru overlooking one of the most beautiful views I’ve ever seen”
11. This chicken’s feathers
12. “My city (HK) puts miniature models of rooms in the ground as bricks.”
13. Colorful mushrooms
14. This is what bees create when you let them.
15. This is The Great Salt Lake in Utah. A causeway separates the lake into 2 sections that get their colors from the unique bacteria that live on each side.
Please note: This article was updated in February 2023 to correct source material and factual inaccuracies.
Preview photo credit 7concussionssofar / reddit
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