“A red and clear rubber toy-like thing found on a playground”
Answer: “It’s a Lego part. It is a pair of balloons held by a Lego figure.”
“A thumb protector possibly, but for what? Found it at a yard sale.”
Answer: “For shucking clams/oysters? Protects from sharp edges and knife slips.”
“Found 4 of these capsules filled with what appears to be metal shavings?”
Answer: “It’s a pill for ruminant animals.”
“At an Airbnb in a beach town on the east coast in the US. The kitchen island has these ’indents’ with a handle?”
Answer: “It was part of a hatch door on a barn or a ship.”
“A small metal trinket found buried on a rural Missouri farm”
Answer: “It’s a boy scout neckerchief slide.”
“Found in the woods in Germany hanging from a tree/bush.”
Answer: “Is hunting allowed? Could be for scent lure.”
“2 cars parked on a street, both seem to have T-shirts (or some sort of material) over their wing mirrors, but just on the side facing the road.”
Answer: “It’s to keep birds from attacking the mirrors.”
“Hundreds of stainless steel pipes near a damn”
Answer: “They’re breather pipes for a landfill site. Lets out the gasses from decomposing waste buried there.”
“These strange dust patterns keep showing up on screens of my apartment windows.”
Answer: “The previous tenant smoked with a fan in the window.”
“These little specs on my bed — every time I dust them off, they reappear within 2 hours and I have no idea how.”
Answer: “This is 100% termite droppings. Somewhere above (your bed) I’m sure you’ll find a small dot-sized hole in the ceiling.”
“Found in my math teacher’s room — 100 squares with varying patterns and colors. No patterns seem to be the same.”
Answer: “It’s a prime factorization chart and a demonstration of The Sieve of Eratosthenes. Note that primes are of solid distinct color.”
“A moon face type thing found buried 6 inches in my yard”
Answer: “It’s probably just a moon face garden decoration.”
“This was in my band-aid wrapper instead of a band-aid. Almost rubbery.”
Answer: “Looks like a manufacturing error where that may be the start or end of a production run.”
“What is this house in the middle of the ocean?”
Answer: “It’s the Middle Bay Light.”
“A little dirt tower that has appeared over the past few days next to my bed”
Answer: “Looks like termites.”
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*Makeshift
Not buying it. There are numbers on the chart with solid distinct colors that are most definitely NOT primes.
Check!
for example 2 is blue...3 is red...5 is yellow
so, for example, 15 is 1 yellow and 1 red, this is 3x4
the 16 has 4 strips of blue, this is 4x2
the 25 has 2 strips of yellow, this is 5x5
they could never be prime numbers.... there are plenty of them that aren't....
every time I write I only see that I wrote it wrong