Answer: Pretty good picture of insect eggs.
21. Researching Plantation Houses In The 1700s. What Is The Thing Hanging From The Ceiling In This Dining Room?
Answer: Very early ceiling fan. The rope at the top would be pulled to create the back and forth motion to fan the air and keep flies away from the table during a meal.
22. My Sister Found This When Cleaning Out A Fish. This Was In The Mouth And There Was A Smaller One In The Stomach. Anyone Know What It Is ?
Answer: Tongue eating parasite (cymothoa exigua). Truly harrowing. Eats the fish’s tongue and then takes the place of the fish’s tongue.
23. Saw On My Flight To Cali. What Is This Thing?
Answer: Specifically, this looks like Concentrated Thermal Solar. It uses mirrors to reflect the light to a central tower which is barely visible in your picture due to the glare coming off of it. The light is then converted to heat where it drives a steam turbine, or some other heat engine.
24. I Found This Thing In My Food. It Was Just Stuck To A Piece Of Meat; It Wasn’t Lodged Into It Or Anything. Anyone Know What It Is?
Answer: Cattle/pig microchip for meat traceability.
25. It Is Approx. 3 Meters Long And Open At The End. Found With Some Similar Looking Ones Scattered Around On A Hillside While Hiking. What Is This Thing?
Answer: This device is called Gazex and it’s used to start avalanches, so they can control when and where they happen. This avalanche control system uses specially constructedand “exploder” sites and tubes built at key locations in avalanche territory to set off avalanches at controlled times. The exploders literally detonate a mixture of oxygen and propane from the tube structures. The explosive force expelled from the tubes triggers avalanches. The explosive bursts are fueled by gas canisters stored in tanks beneath the exploders on the mountain.
26.
Answered by u/Ukenstein:
Snuff container, for you know, doing “snuff.”
26. “Poured a glass of water last night from the tap left it under the light on the nightstand, next morning I found this floating in it… What could it be ?! Yikes !”
Answer: It’s a bacteria colony.
27. Found Inside The White Of An Egg. Are These More, Future Eggs That Unfortunately Got Inside Another Egg? Did The Chicken Lose All Future Eggs? A Parasite?
Answered by u/MoonShadowArt: Could be calcium “beads” or “nodules” that make up the shell. Basically a birth defect in this particular egg.
Answered by u/fluffspeed: I looked up “chicken white egg balls” and found something similar.
28.”I’m waiting for the bank to open and they have this card facing the street. What is it used for?”
Answered by u/peebs1284:
Former bank employee here. It’s definitely a safety signal.
We switched ours quarterly and it is to let other employees know that it is all clear to open. Typically, we had two employees “open” the branch while the rest waited in the parking lot or across the street for “all clear.” The openers go in, turn off alarm, search the building, and check everything, then they set the signal.
Answered by u/canihaveasquash:
I used to work for this bank and it is 100% a safety protocol. You have a safe card to display and any other card from the pack is a sign to call the police. The safe card changes on a regular basis, and if you work in that branch you know your safe card. It’s not the only safety measure, for example, we also had that we would walk to a certain point and back yo indicate it was safe, but it’s a key one.
A previous bank I worked in used a safety name that was unisex, so if someone greeted you at the door to let you in and said “oh morning ‘Alex’ can you grab some milk for us before you come in” you knew there was an issue and to call for help.
29.
Answered by u/Dances_for_Donairs:
It removed the top of soft boiled eggs.
31. ‘Found In A House I Moved Into. The Chain Has Two Corks Attached On Either End’
Answered by u/rblue:
It is for wine. Ice goes in the little side container to keep it cold.
Answered by u/handlessuck:
A household staple of the ’70s. This very item.
Answer: It’s a fly/wasp trap. You add sugary water to the inside, put the stopper in, and then the wasps fly in through the hole in the base, but can’t get out again.
32. ‘Found This Glass Like Tube “Shell” Washed Up On A Beach In North Caroline…’
Answer by u/adube1320:
33. What is this brown bumpy thing on my Pringle??
Answered by u/sidusnare:
The previous Pringle that didn’t completely make it out of the rolling mold. Pringles aren’t sliced potatoes, they are mashed potatoes pressed flat and cut like cookies. That’s a stuck previous Pringle.
34. Found this small fine pointed device in a desk drawer many years ago. The point retracts fully inside by twisting just above the tip.
Answer: It’s a retractable toothpick.
35. “What Is This? Found It By My Toaster. Please Don’t Tell Me It’s Some Kind Of Cockroach Molt’
Answered by u/99999999999999999989:
Damn, that looks a lot like a rattlesnake rattle.
In what part of the world do you live? It looks small, so possibly a juvenile snake. But geez, caution is definitely advised.
Response from OP u/sal25:
…Riverside county in Southern California. Rattlesnakes are found in the wild here I believe, but I never heard of anyone having one in their home!
Answered by u/99999999999999999989:
You have now. Definitely call an exterminator.
Answered by u/shadow_squirrel:
It is 100% [a] rattlesnake rattler. What’s interesting is that it’s actually [broken]. So at one point, it was most likely longer than that. It came off a pretty decent-sized rattlesnake.
Source: Am from Mississippi. See rattlesnakes everywhere all the time.
Update from the OP u/sal25:
…It was just the rattlesnake rattle that my dad brought from a recent trip to Mexico…
Solved! Just texted my sister about it, and apparently my dad brought it over from Mexico as a souvenir or something. LOL.