“What are these things? They are cast iron and found exactly like this.”
"I farm and can answer this: they are teeth from a tractor bucket. Here’s a link to the one like this"
“Leather strap with 2 cup-shaped objects, probably lead, attached with holes in. Found in a 16th-century English farm house.”
"They are called horn trainers or horn cups."
“A 7-inch wooden post in front of toilet. What is it?”
“We finally figured it out. Outside this picture is a shower with glass door, the post is a door stop for the shower door.”
“This slide-looking thing on the playground. It’s raised in the middle, and clearly not a slide.”
"It’s called a saddle slide"
“Thrown into our garden — pink modelling clay (or something similar) surrounding a metallic bullet-shaped item. What is it?”
"It’s a lead or tungsten worm weight (for fishing ) wrapped in indicator putty"
“I was given this small silver object as a pre-wedding gift with no explanation. It has small lines engraved on it.”
"This is a miniature sterling silver wedding vase. The nozzles symbolize husband and wife, and the patterns symbolize the couple’s journey."
“What is this plate / serving dish? It has a handle attached on top and a very small cup in the middle. Never seen one before.”
"For carrying a candle around old school way. No wax on the floor."
“What is this spoon with a tong-like attachment? Seen in an antique store in Lyon, France.”
"It is a spoon designed to separate the fat from the sauce, called “cuillère dégraisseuse.” You scoop up the sauce, hold the spoon above your succulent meat and depress the spring: the good juices fall through the hole until you release the tension, et voilà."
“Strange substance appears on kitchen walls. Any ideas what this is? I’ve wiped it off before and it reappears.”
"Since it’s a rental, is your landlord entering and baiting for bugs? When our building had roaches, they would place bait in the kitchen cabinets, and it looked like that!"
"That is definitely what it is! We’ve had German roach problems (I’m moving out thank goodness) but I was never told they’d bait it. Thank you, I’ve been so confused."
“Found this during a home inspection. What is it?”
"A wasp nest or, depending on where this is, another insect like that."
“My many-years-old rain jacket has a smooth, somewhat flexible, seemingly plastic object sewn into the upper arm of the right sleeve only. What is it?”
"This is a radar reflector for avalanche rescue purposes."
“A moonface-type thing was found buried 6 inches in my yard.”
“It’s probably just a moon face garden decoration.”
“Found 100 squares with varying patterns and colors in my math teacher’s room. No patterns seem to be the same.”
“It’s a prime factorization chart demonstrating The Sieve of Eratosthenes. Note that primes are of solid distinct color.”
“This was in my band-aid wrapper instead of a band-aid. Almost rubbery.”
“Looks like a manufacturing error where that may be the start or end of a production run.”
“Found 4 of these capsules filled with what appears to be metal shavings?”
“It’s a pill for ruminant animals.”
“Hundreds of stainless steel pipes near a damn”
“They’re breather pipes for a landfill site. Lets out the gasses from decomposing waste buried there.”
“Found in the woods in Germany hanging from a tree/bush.”
“Is hunting allowed? Could be for scent lure.”
“At an Airbnb in a beach town on the east coast in the US. The kitchen island has these ’indents’ with a handle?”
“It was part of a hatch door on a barn or a ship.”
“A small metal trinket found buried on a rural Missouri farm”
“It’s a boy scout neckerchief slide.”
“These little specs on my bed — every time I dust them off, they reappear within 2 hours and I have no idea how.”
“This is 100% termite droppings. Somewhere above (your bed) I’m sure you’ll find a small dot-sized hole in the ceiling.”
“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.”
“It’s to keep birds from attacking the mirrors.”
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