I wanna hug whoever made that little staircase for our furry friends ❤

4:59 Fossil enthusiast here. that is a fossil of the scale tree, Lepidodendron. they grew leaves directly out of the trunk, and the bark would harden around them, creating scale-like patterns.

Is good to see people on the internet helping out someone with the identification of a random object.

That little rant at around 10:50 about the sunken house; Yes, putting houses underground does work as temperature control, and is actually one of if not the best insulators, building underground is an underused technique and keeps the temperature quite stable throughout the year

The mourning ring, "wouldnt be worth much." If its 18k, and weighs just 10 grams, that's like, $500.

My grandma's house was built into a hill so most of the back of it and one side are almost completely underground, it does actually help keep it a lot cooler, she's able to save a lot on ac and heating because of it.

7:13 Gooch cooler. Bruh. 💀Also, i'm so happy you guys did this subreddit again! It's hella fascinating!! i hope you guys do more of Whatisthisthing!!

New fear unlocked. Accidentally swallowing a meat tracker and getting my meat tracked

01:40 When matches were new people would keep them in fancy boxes like this, take a look at google and you'll find hundreds of pictures of them made of precious metals. They were quite a bit longer than modern matches as they could be unpredictable when ignited, so you'd want your hand to be well away from the hot end. They were sometimes called 'Lucifers' due to the strong sulphur smell they'd give off.

13:20 yes, that lat/long is _very_ specific. 14 decimal places of latitude and 16 decimal places of longitude is enough to pinpoint a location to within an area that's about a nanometre north/south and 6 picometres east/west (that is, a billionth of a metre by 6 trillionths of a metre). That's pretty precise. For comparison, that's approximately 3 times the area of a single hydrogen atom.

a "smokejumper" is a firefighter used in wildfires and forest fires who is like a military paratrooper, just in the FD. they mostly help to contain fires

I like this subreddit. Just people helping each other out.

What's worse: A Mushroom taking over the home or Termites? Depends on your Priorities...A Mushroom isn't likely to damage the house supports enough to cause it to fall down the way Termites can (and, if not stopped, WILL), however, Termites aren't likely to release spores and toxins that can make you extremely sick or even dead that way a Fungus can... Personally, I believe the Fungus is worse... Termites are relatively easy to get rid of, expensive when you have to rip a wall apart and replace the joists and studs, but easy... A Fungus however is MUCH harder to get rid of due to the microscopic spores it releases that cause new infestations if the remediation company you hire isn't thorough enough when they clean the home...and molds are Fungi...

on the "does it help" question for setting a house into the ground like that, it helps with cooling but depending on where you live it might not help with heating as much as it should, definitely keeps you above hypothermia levels but youre gonna want to turn a heater on for actually comfortable temperatures

Often enough the level of absolutely dedicated research of this sub is impressive, and somehow I feel like even that isn't enough to describe just how amazing these people are at finding information about anything and everything. Even if something turns out to just be a mundane object or feature used either in the past or our modern everyday lives, there's still so much that isn't very obvious to the average person.

10:40-That's an earth home. I've seen them just dug into the ground like that with a roof one top. Not all of them are completely buried in the ground. 16:55-Polyester is derived from plastic actually. Most synthetic fabrics are made from polyester or some similar material. Polyester isn't necessarily a bad fabric, but it does not like to be heated up. Low heat or air dry are always recommended.

I really like this subreddit! I'd love to see it again in the future :D

The little steps are much simpler than you think. It's to get trailers/campers/RV's etc over the curb without hurting the rims of your tires or chipping away at the curb.

The blocks of wood stacked on the curb are for vehicles getting over a curb easier and with lower stress damaging of the curb. Can also be stairs too.

@15:46 I work for Wall's icecream, we put metal through the metal detectors every 30 mins to be sure. Your guy must have done an improper check.

7:10 I choked on my drink. "The gooch cooler"

10:50 im a farmkid, and we have what is called a bank barn, its a barn built partway into the side of a hill, it gives easy access both floors and helps with temperatures, our barn is around 100 years old and bank barns have been built at least since the 1660s, the livestock usually live in the 1st floor, and the 2nd and 3rd floors are for storage of food bedding, and other things it does help with temperature, the ground often is colder or warmer than the temperature of the air, in winter the ground is warmer, and in summer the ground is cooler when going inside our barn's 1st floor you can instantly feel the temperature difference, and the further you walk inside towards the part of the barn that is in the ground the most, the more it gets to be colder/warmer, id say at least 10-20 degrees warmer or colder often in old barns there are cracks between the boards sometimes enough to even fit a finger in them, and those boards are pretty thin too, so having the walls be partially made out of the ground traps heat better in the winter, and it can get much warmer than the outside when the livestock is in the barn adding additional heat from their bodies

12:04 those are definitely for plugging driplines, if you no longer have a plant on the line you remove the dripper and pluf the hole with these

There are many homes built in the 70s that were built into hillsides and halfway buried. This actually did help a lot during the energy crisis, keeping the homes cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter

I feel like some of these people should be legit detectives

I hit the like button as soon as I heard the words "gooch cooler."

Absolutely love this subReddit!!!❤❤ we need more of these with all three narrators and see who can figure out the most items. I’m sure Lexi’s gonna be on top

Robin is giving bumbling detective stumbling around the city tryna solve a case while an expert drops in every now and then and gives some clues while he’s oblivious enough to not really get it, but at the end of the movie he ends up catching the bad guy that no one else was smart enough to suspect.

A nearby town has a house built right into a hill, and has grass growing on what would be the roof. It helps a ton with keeping it cool in the summer and warm in the winter. I believe it's also super common in Australia the more inland you go.

I like this subreddit. It's so fascinating. I hope you guys do it more often.

"Hey, look everybody it's Patrick's new house!" "Uh... that's a telephone pole...?" " *Exactly!* "

My takeaways from this video: A) we have some strange problems we "needed to solve" B) we're great at coming up with solutions C) the World Wide Web empowers learning together

We should definitely do this sub more often

The tree trunk fossil is SO FUCKING COOL, THO?!!

the title is correct on the thumbnail, those are indeed critter stairs!

It's crazy how I can't recognize my own (insert a thing I see everyday) but these guys are like Sherlock Holmes and using the fact that this touch has a small black dot on it's side means it's the fleegalmorph of the speligons

Ya those old outlets actually can be. I work in construction and we were doing demolition on an old lake view cabin that had the same exact outlets. We had the electrician there that day and he was about to turn off the power when all of a sudden we hear an audible pop coming from the second floor where we found that the outlet had combusted causing part of the insulation to ignite which we promptly tore out of the wall and stomped out. Never trust old and outdated items that run on electricity.

11:06 yes, it actually does a really good job. Soil acts as an impressive insulator, and what is in the soil can affect its effectiveness. It also helps prolong the lifespan of the home and makes it more resilient to earthquakes, though likely those 2 factors were not as considered during construction. If you want some cool looking bonus examples, there's a style of Nordic infrastructure where stuff is built into the terrain and it's absolutely beautiful.

I am all things and all things are me ~ is Chicago style

0:28 If that is the original part, the serial number of that part can be traced to the VIN number... and to the owner.

15:58. I work in food production. Losing a metal test piece is bad. But a customer finding one in a can is reallllllly bad.

13:00 Uxo: shorthand for unexploded ordinance, or in layman's terms, explodey thingy that has yet to go boom

I love this sub. Im so curious about things in general, so it feeds my want to know things

We stan EOD Daddy

I already love this sub. So many times I have seen some random esoterric object out in the world that could not for the life of me begin to understand. Now we shall have answers!

My new favorite subreddit

This sounds like a fun subreddit👀

11:00 Yah, it does help keeping the house at a temperature. There was a trend, back in the 80s-90s... Building underground houses. Think of the LOTR's shire.

3 minutes ago, the fastest time i’ve ever seen a video uploaded

My mum has one of those hair clips for cutting. You can tell its even because of the level built in which I assume if you're using it to cut your own hair, you look at in the mirror.

I think my favourite part of these is guessing what it is! Edit: 5:49 I actually knew this one!!! I took a wildland firefighting class, they will also huck fire grenades that create small fires at my department! We watched one do it's thing in a controlled demonstration!! And I totally agree about not being paid enough. In my state at least, the town budget is not big enough to handle fire grenades. Ours is from the county over. Edit 2: 10:38 To answer the question, I think it might be effective? I know to change the temperature of air take (generally) a lot more effort than the ground. I personally find the air temperature to be more consistent than the ground, since the ground can transfer heat faster than air.

8:45 those little 'one-wire' buttons were also what Laserstorm used on their activation things.

Being a car guy is the difference at 0:53 fr. Just saying ford and looking at the shape i knew it had to be a sedan or hatchback between 2000 and 2009

Duck is gone, I have taken over

Robin was sad he didn't get his dragon. Robin made this video so much better 😂

i love this subreddit so mjch! its also really fun to guess the objects

"How do people do this?" Pattern recognition. That sole imprint is just a negative of the pattern in the sole. Shoes technically don't have to have a pattern... you just slide around less with one...

7:00 I've seen a chair like this, it is used to put your legs up, but it is often just used for leisure

Yes the sunken houses do save on energy, especially when done with a green (growing) roof. The main problem with them, besides fire hazards, is there can be gases (Radon) underground that are leaking into the house. Toxic, cancerous, and just plain deadly (radioactive). If you have one of these houses you have to have a gas detection system similar to smoke detectors.

10:51 a few feet down, there’s something called the frost line, where below that it pretty much always stays around 50°F.

the funniest one to me was discovering that a trailer was used to transport racing pigeons lmaooo

I love this subreddit.

building underground is actually really good for HVAC costs, it's just expensive since you need to make sure it doesn't collapse in on the sides.

Tree cookie cutter one: Metal is considerably harder to split in half then wood is so it would take a lot more for the pole to split in half (I think)

The last image is an RFID tag for farmed animals. I only know of their use in fish farms for tags that small, and the tag goes into the nose of farmed fish so it shouldn't be anywhere near the food you buy. I don't know where that stuff is placed in other darned animals, but I assume it shouldn't be where consumers could accidentally find

I don’t have Reddit and don’t really feel like creating an account so I’m gonna ask here -Own a wooden plate -Brought from Germany to USA by grandpa sometime between 1960 to 1980 -Has a black eagle painted in the center with a coat of arms with a red line on a yellow background on one side and what I think is a yellow lion on a black background, there is also a crown painted right above this coat of arms -The word Mannheim is carved right under the eagle -Around the edge of the plate there is a carving of the name of and a coat of arms for the following cities (clockwise) Berlin, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Garmisch, Monchen, Nürnburg, Stuttgart, and Frankfurtim -Turqoise colored line connecting each coat of arms around the edge to the two next to it Anyone have any clue what it might be?

I gotta say, learning about cruise ships is hilarious if you've never been on one and terrifying if you have. You expect all of this weird machinery to be important for navigation or ventilation or whatever, but it is literally a thing that they put pointless nonsense like that tube on cruise ships to make it look like there is more machinery and functionality than there is. Even going back to the big liners like the Titanic they'd add decorative smokestacks that didn't do anything and weren't connected to the engines because people look at a ship and think "wow, this ship has all sorts of technology on it that I don't understand! The company must be going above and beyond and making sure they've got all the newest technology to make sure I'm safe and taken care of!" When the thing is actually a below-the-bare-minimum skeleton of decades old parts from decommissioned ships that's only allowed on the ocean because they paid off the despot of the tax haven they registered it in.

I like this subreddit. Love the mini mysteries!

In Canadian grocery stores, they use twine to keep the legs together. Much safer for puppers.

10:12 Willamette is pronounced Will-Lamb-it, as everyone in Oregon will instantly tell you. :-)

Man doxxed the strange building

If you spit out an RFID tag implant, scan it and see who you just ate.

Yes the house being somewhat underground does help. Earth makes for great insulation

That's one hell of a way to find out you have termites 😂 8:08

A value in decimal degrees to 5 decimal places is accurate to 1.11 meter at the equator. The geocoordinates of that guy's strange building in Middle Nowhere, England are apparently accurate to the nearest picometer. If your target destination is between a Hydrogen atom and a Carbon atom you're probably ok. But just in case, keep an eye out for the red and white caravan up on your left with one wheel missing. The road you need to take is just after that on your right after a slight bend. It's easy to miss, and there's no place to turn around for 5 miles, so don't miss it!

Having a house even half under ground can cut your utlities by up to half depending on how well insulated and vented and so forth the rest of the house remaining above ground is. My house is built half under ground and my electric bill is never more then $125 us, and water is maybe $60 to 75 depending on if we've have to change water in hot tub, or the kids have been out playing on slip n slide or spinklers

I was going to say tire lever for the thing at 4:15. I keep a couple in my handlebar bag along with my patch kit

4:34 also looks similar to the tool that came with my front and rear camera to push the wire under the trim.

3:48 I like how it has a built in spirit level

The underground house is in my town. There are many of those here. Usually built in the 1940s. Refered to as "Hope Houses". The owner would build the basement and live in it until they are able to afford (or hope) to build the main floor of the house.

This is one of my favourite subreddits since it's always a fun little boost of random knowledge. Will I ever use this knowledge? Unlikely. But... It's neat. :3

9:04 Gregorion?? what are we in the Star trek universe? :)) it is George-ian as in King George

I'd totally use the needle case for matches!

4:36 the actual name is a tire lever, for the bike tube one :)

Ngl, i fell asleep while watching this video and my dream went wild with you lmao

we had one of those houses built into the grouind near where i grrew up. you could see the hill of dirt built up around it and only a few feet of it were above ground

4:54 tree bark fossil. Lepidodendron

I love this sub Reddit, it's so much fun

2:38 I believe it is a bunker air vent but not sure

That's a Bussard collector on the ship. Hehe

Video 57 of asking all narrators, Slazo and Kenny to narrate in one single video

One of my fav reddit vids, crave more

What is this thing? Is what I say when I see my reflection. Hahaha, I'm so clever...

There’s quite a few houses built into hills where I live. They’re really good at conserving heat or cool air. I know someone who owns one and they even have solar panels and the energy company sends her a 25$ check every month

Everyone is talking about the sunken houses and I'm here still horried about the last meat one

2:09 it really look like the top to a baby wipe container.

What is this? Stairs, for ANTS!

I knew about the turkey call because me father gave me one when I was little

Robin.....the gooch cooler? Really? 🤣🤣🤣

People on that Subreddit be like: >Hey I have this shoe print, can someone identify it? >>Yeah sure, Here is the exact shoe and shoe size, also the print looks clean, so the shoes must be new, so here is a list of everyone who bought that shoe in the 12 months. Actually I also just hacked the Police Database in your town (don't ask how I located you) and found that "this criminal" owns the exact shoe and was arrested 3 months ago for another similar theft, he is on parole btw.