30 Interesting Things People Found While Just Going About Their Day
I’ve never once found anything more interesting than a stray receipt in my own pocket, so reading through r/MildlyInteresting always leaves me a little jealous of people who apparently stumble onto random stuff like this just going about their day.
None of them are incredibly groundbreaking, that’s sort of the entire point of the subreddit. But every one of these finds made someone stop, take a photo, and decide it was worth sharing.
These are the best things people found recently, and a few of them are going to make you look a little closer at whatever’s around you today.
1. “Found a random guy who looks like me waiting for the subway the other day.”

2. “Found the cliff this Clif bar came from.”

3. “Was at the beach and found a shell with barnacles on it that makes it look like an anatomically correct heart”

4. “We found neighbouring houses with the same colours as our jackets”

5. “I found this strange lemon at workplace”

6. “Found a dead bee inside my honey”

7. “Giant puffball mushroom my sister found in the woods”

8. “I found a piece of driftwood that looks like a dragon’s head.”

9. “A little crab pen holder I found in Tokyo”

10. “Moved into a 160 year old loft and found kitty paw prints in the masonry”

11. “Found a gummy bear mold in my pack of gummy bears”

12. “Found an edge piece in my bag of Goldfish”

13. “I work for the railway and found this Gatorade carton in near mint condition in a tunnel. Date on the top says June 16, 1988.”

14. “My father found over $40k USD inside an old furnace”

15. “I found a lowercase stop sign”

16. “Found an old beer bottle in the mountains with a mini ecosystem inside..”

17. “I found a wallet on a Saturday, I left a note in a way so only the real owner could contact me”

18. “I found a mussel with natural googly eyes”

19. “This Sprite can I found in the ceiling of an old mall.”

20. “Was cutting down a tree at a golf course and found a golf ball wedged in it”

21. “I found a triple Banana”

22. “Big snail I found. Foot for scale”

23. “I found this ceiling light full of rubber ducks in a pub in Edinburgh.”

24. “This incredible carrot hand was found while digging juice carrots at our farm today”

25. “Broke an Billiards ball and found a mini one inside”

26. “I manage a liquor store and found a 24 hour AA token left on the shelf”

27. “This 1969 dollar bill we found in my Dad’s small money collection with a 00000001 serial number”

28. “Found this salt and pepper chess set at an Italian restaurant in NH.”

29. “I found this bumpy thick Pringle in the can”

30. “This radio I found in my attic is built to resemble a Coca Cola vending machine.”
