Curiosity is a powerful force that drives humans to explore the world around us. It's the reason why we ask questions and venture into the unknown. And sometimes, it leads us to break or open things just to see what's inside, too.
In this list, Bored Panda gathered some of the most surprising and intriguing cross-sections that we could find. From the inside of a bowling ball to the inner workings of a cactus, these pictures are sure to stir up your interest. We've even "cut up" a mechanical calculator to show its complex mechanisms!
So sit back, relax, and continue scrolling to enjoy this fascinating journey through the unexpected contents of everyday objects.
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Picked Up An Old Clam Beside A Lake In South Australia And Found A Small Colony Of Plants Inside, Living Off Of The Nutrients
My Dog Finally Finished Her Favorite Toy Tonight, Only To Find There Was A Smaller, Even More Squeaky Toy Inside
this company is called bark box and almost all of their toys are like this
ive seen pics like this alot. toy companies will almost always mention it on a tag or watever the toy can with.
Load More Replies...My dogs aren't "finished" until they rip all the fuzz out of the body and spread it all over the living room.
The process of taking something apart to understand how it works is called reverse engineering, and there are many reasons why someone (or a company) might do it.
You can reverse engineer consumer products, software, mechanical parts, pieces of technology, or even architectural structures.
When companies employ this practice, engineers usually do it without the original blueprints. While there are many ways to reverse engineer a product, a popular method is to take apart a smaller part of a product and analyze it until you get a thorough understanding of it.
Cross-Section Of Several Different Cables
IKR? Repurposing offcuts of cable as decorative pieces, art posing as recycling by stealth.
Load More Replies...Because it is. Glass art from the island of Murano.
Load More Replies...My Firewood Had A Pine Cone Inside The Tree
The cone is likely older then the tree. And the tree grew around it more then likely due to the sap causing it to stick
What? No it had to of fell into a fork of the tree or shoved in cavity by a squirrel and grew over as the tree grew.
Load More Replies...Don't burn it! Sand it down and varnish it. Keep it! It's rare and unusual.
I hope you did not burn it. That is unique, should be made into something
The Squeaker From Inside Her Dog Toy Has Declared Her The Winner
It would be amazing to have a collection of these over the years
And you could keep them in a box and just shove your hand inside and hear all the squeakers squeak
Load More Replies...I have a pile of squeakers from our retriever's toys, and I use them to hide in other things she plays with, and it surprises her every time. So cute to see that look on her face, when a toy that never squeaked, all of a sudden does.
As stated earlier, undamaged squeakers can be reused in a handmade toy consisting of an old sock and batting.
Came here to say that. Their toy design is so clever, I buy it more for me than her.
Load More Replies...You need to Collect them and Sew her a Brand new Stuffy with Several Different Squeakers Inside it!! Perhaps inside little Pockets of Denim?
ROFL, OMG I hope the person that thought of this got a raise at their job for such an innovative and hilarious idea!
You can deconstruct (and reconstruct) things in many different areas. Jazz musicians can take apart a song and put the ideas together in a new improvisation of the original. Writers might look at a well-known story and retell it in a new, fresh way.
The musical West Side Story, for example, was based on the storyline from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and James Joyce’s Ulysses is a modern-day retelling of The Odyssey by Homer.
The Inside Of This Guitar Looks Like A Really Fancy Apartment
Love this‼️ Never expected to see a little room inside of guitar 🎸 ❗️
The Wine I Ordered Online Came With A Tiny Set Of Dice Packaged Inside A Hollow Cork
What is it with dice within everyday objects? Kind of an inside joke? 🤔
https://www.splashwines.com/products/mini-splash-yahtzee
Load More Replies...Ummm.... wouldn't that allow air to permeate through the much less dense cork = icky wine.
Had To Cut A Sunflower In Half Today At Work, Thought It Might Be Appreciated Here
I checked the original post. She's a teacher's assistant for an applied biology class. :)
Load More Replies...From OP: "I'm a teacher's assistant for Applied Biology, we were showing the students what the Asteraceae family looks like"
Turn this photo into its negative image, and you have a dental x-ray of a creepy creature.
It's a sad picture cause the beautiful sunflower was destroyed 🌻🌻🌻
The Inside Of A Cactus
If I'm not wrong, these vessels are used to store and transport water. It's called xylem and it's present in every plant, but it's stronger and larger in cacti because of dry climate.
These are actually the ribs. It is also known as the "secondary xylem," but its main purpose is to give support to the cactus. The primary xylem is closer to the surface and is responsible for transporting almost all of the water the cactus needs to survive. During a rainy season, like the one we just had here in the Sonoran Desert, the pleats allow the saguaros to expand like an accordion. Come see these fat guys while you have a chance!
Load More Replies...This is the Skeleton of the Saguaro Cactus, when the Cactus dies it falls over and rots away over time. A natural process, many of the people saw this off and use them for walking sticks. Incredibly strong and very lightweight. I have several.
When a saguaro falls over new cacti spring up from the carcus. It's illegal to move any part of a saguaro, live or dead. There are no walking sticks made of them.
Load More Replies...People use those to make rainsticks! Remember when they were all the rage?
Naw, rainsticks are made from cholla, totally different cacti
Load More Replies...That damage was done by morons who think that shooting cacti 🌵 that can't move makes them all big and bad. It's almost miraculous that this one is still alive, but may not survive long-term due to this injury.
In business, updating older products for current use is also one of the main reasons why people turn to reverse engineering. It could include rebuilding:
- An old or outdated product;
- An expensive product using cheaper or more readily available materials;
- A product that uses mechanical parts that no longer exist;
- Another company's product to learn about it;
- Reverse engineering helps engineers understand the product's function, which they can use to create an effective updated version that still meets user requirements.
A Cross-Section Of A Professional Painter's Palette (6 Months Deep)
this is super interesting (although as an artist, I am shook as to how the painter didn't clean it out once)
The paint turns into plastic, so it can’t go down the drain. You just leave it to dry instead
Load More Replies...This is very like fordite-otherwise known as Detroit Agate. Its automobile paint found in old auto factories. The layers of paint dry rock solid over the years, and people use it to make jewellery from. It can be cut and polished just like quartz, and has lovely swirling multi coloured stripes.
yeah a paper bowl. my favorite is Dixie they are lined with a bit of plastic or whatever to keep the moisture from making a mess.
Load More Replies...??? Wait. oh. what.. you... people don't... clean... their palettes regularly (obviously I am not a pro... I know next to nothing... other than paint exists)
My mom's a professional artist and I've never seen one of her palettes get this thick. Although it looks like this person was using a paper bowl, so they possibly planned to just throw it away and didn't bother cleaning it.
Load More Replies...More of a deep bowl than a palette, makes me think this was made on purpose. Not that impressive, imo.
Inside Of A Mechanical Calculator
It's such a wonder humans could think about creating beauties like this and actually make it function
If you think that's complicated, have a look at Charles Babbage's Difference Engine - the small versions worked, but when he tried to scale it up, it couldn't be made as metalworking technology wasn't up to it. Someone did try to recreate it fairly recently using more modern manufacturing. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine
Load More Replies...Somebody, some people, came up with the idea to make this complex piece of machinary. That’s amazing. Humans can be very impressive when we are not being d***s.
Imagine if they sold these at Ikea? Assembling it would be slightly challenging.
Especially if the obligatory screws where missing ^^
Load More Replies...I used to repair things like this. Typewriters, adding machines, etc...
The Tigers On These Socks Look Like House Cats When Turned Inside Out
Well some of us act really similar to be fair coming from experience :)
The Inside Of A Pine Cone
Fellow trypopophobic pandas, what reactions do you get when its triggered? For me I get very itchy
Reverse engineering can also help repair products that are already on the market. This process can be especially helpful if nobody is sure what's causing the issue. Engineers may also take these products apart to see if there are any ways to fix them or improve functionality with new technology or smarter design. For example, a company may learn that newly available technology can help improve glitching issues within a software application. Through the reverse engineering process, they may also learn that there's a more efficient way to create the product.
Cross-Section Of Our Painter’s 1-Year-Old Stir Stick
It looks like an antique wooden charging socket with a Victorian USB interface.
so satisfying... I want a time lapse of something like this (if you pandas have any please tell me them)
The Inside Of An HDMI Cable
Looks like four living cells functioning together. Makes you think about how life formed.
And each one of those wires serves a very specific purpose. Technology is fascinating!
My Sister Found This Tiny Egg Inside Her Hard-Boiled Egg
I usually like hard boiled eggs, but for this one I'll make an eggception.
I got a dozen eggs recently, for hard boiled eggs. I tossed them in a pan with water and boiled those babies. I went to peel them and slice them, only to find that EVERY AINGLE ONE of them was a double-yolker. Seriously. What are the odds? We're talking 24 yolks to the dozen. Crazy.
Eggs are often candled, held up to light, to look for double yolks or imperfections. The doubles are set aside. Maybe this batch was accidentally packaged.
Load More Replies...What’s weirding me out more is the oddness to where the extra had been sitting in the egg, what it looks like now that it’s out - weird illusion…
I know this can happen when a chicken has hiccups while she’s in her egg cycle
Bit Into A Wonderful Surprise Today And Learned About The Delicious Lucy Glo Apple. The Best Apple I Have Ever Had
“ The Lucy™ Glo is a tasty and tart apple with a hint of sweetness. It has a blushing gold skin and is naturally red on the inside. Lucy™ Glo Apples are tasty in salads, eaten fresh as a snack, or try juicing them for a vibrant pink beverage”
Load More Replies...I wonder if that was initially startling? You go to bite into an apple and bright fleshy pink emerges after you sink your teeth in...?
That's a shame; it looks like these are not grown/available in the UK.
YAY! I just discovered they are available just a few miles from my home!
As writer Eric Braun pointed out, deconstruction also plays a part in teaching something to someone else. In order to pass down the knowledge, you need to understand its components and how they fit together. This comes from focused learning on each aspect of the topic. If a student does not understand something and has a question, the teacher will not be able to convey the topic if they cannot answer it.
The Inside Of My Red Onion Looks Like A Lotus Flower
Black lotus 0 Mono artifact adds three mana of one color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
This Is A Tree Burning From The Inside In Oregon, USA. Don’t Let The Rain Fool You
Yes, it is burning. With bushfires in Australia, once the main fire is out, patrols will check for weeks after the fire to make sure trees burning internally do not reignite another fire. Fun/Scary fact: fire can burn inside a tree and not be seen on the outside, then travel along the roots underground to ignite another tree - again, without showing on the outside.
Load More Replies...This may be from a fire we had a little while back. It was in a place called Detroit Lake which is not far from where I live. The sky was Dark orange and ash fell like snow. I have COPD. Climate change can suck my butt.
My first thought on seeing this was wondering if the tree is in pain, and feeling badly for it. Just imagine.
That's me, fine on the outside, burning with emotions on the inside lol!
The Inside Of My Inflatable Air Mattress
How can people buy these things knowing the horrors of jellyfish poaching??? Monsters. /s
Wait … how did they get a camera in there without it deflating? I'm so confused.
put phone camera at the hole you use to deflate it, while it's inflated. big enough for camera lens to fit.
Load More Replies...Elephant's Foot
That's because all mammals have similar-ish bone structures (to a certain extent). An elephant's toes have padding under the toes that allow it to walk quietly. Also they have padding under their actual feet which means they can be super quiet! Signed, an elephant lover :)
Load More Replies...That ankle bone doesn't look near strong enough to support an elephant!
Load More Replies...As you can see, you can learn a great deal by taking things apart. However, if you decide to do it, don't forget to take pics and share them with the rest of us!
For more similar "lessons", fire up Bored Panda's earlier publications 30 Photos Of Objects Cut In Half That Reveal The Unseen Side Of Things and 30 Times People Broke Or Opened Things And Were Surprised By What They Found Inside.
I Cut Into A Cantaloupe And The Inside Was Square
This Cedar Wood That I Was Cutting Had Purple Inside
Too bad it was cut to firewood size. I bet some wood crafters would have loved using this...
This is Eastern Red Cedar, the same that is used to make cedar chest and cedar closets. Would never use it as firewood as it has very low heat value, 12.1 MBTU/Cord.
When you trim your trees, or cut down a dead one, you might as well make firewood. Most homes don't burn wood for heat. It's just for ambience.
Load More Replies...It's either Rosewood or Purple Heart. When polished, it looks gorgeous, so vibrantly purple.
That’s not abnormal that’s how all cedar looks around here when it’s split. Always called it the "heart" of the cedar. I used to cut cedar for xtra money when I was in high school. Places pay for it in logs certain lengths to make posts and stuff. Cedars naturally are resistant to most bugs. And rot resistant. Good for fence posts.
That’s called purple heart wood! As it gets exposed to air over the years it slowly turns dark brown, but it’s really cool to make crafts out of :D
Or it's Eastern Red Cedar. That's what it looks like to me. Western red cedar tends to be more uniform in colour.
Cross-Section Of A Banana Tree Trunk
I might actually like one for scale this time. JUST THIS TIME.
Load More Replies...Yes. You probably know, but maybe others don't... In botany, herbaceous refers to a plant that continues to not grow woody stems even after one season. So bananas are herbaceous, yet not an herb in the culinary sense. And rosemary is not herbaceous - it's a woody shrub - yet is considered an herb in the culinary sense.
Load More Replies...And also incapable of reproducing sexually. All cavendish bananas are cloned plants with fruits that do not contain seeds. Hence the fragility of the banana crop, one disease that this one banana plant is susceptible to could kill all cavendish banana plants in the world.
If the trunk still remain planted, a new shoot will grow from the center, blossoming into a full new tree. Banana trees, once they produce the bananas, will never be able to produce another set of bananas. This is the method some people use to get multiple set of bananas from the same tree trunk.
The ones we had died after fruiting. The main plant literally dried up and fell apart. But they were constantly growing smaller plants in an expanding circle around the main plant. We had ladyfingers and a larger banana that I don't think was cavendish, but I don't know the name. The plants had been there for 60ish years. Was really pissed when the fence between them and the neighbours got replaced and the fencing guy literally dozed them all down to make it easier to put in the fence. Just killed all of them.
Load More Replies...But wisdom preachers forbid its use in the herb blends... When science isn't sciencing
Load More Replies...I was surprised when I learned they get cut down all the time. I thought they lasted for years like an apple or pear tree.
Fun fact you can cut them down with a steak knife if you need to. The trunks are so soft.
Load More Replies...I Just Learned it is The Grandmothers who are the Fruits & their Daughters and Granddaughters are already Growing around her when she does!
Cut In Half Cables Used In The Golden Gate Bridge
When the Roeblings were building the Brooklyn Bridge, their cable supplier delivered substandard cable. Rather than wait for a new vendor to make hundreds of miles of new wire to replace the bad stuff, they just decided to use more strands of the bad wire to make thicker cables.It worked
Wait… how do those things um… bend?? Or do they bend?? I’m so confused… like, we’re they made with the curve on the bridge and that’s that? Or do they bend??
They weave back and forth one strand at a time.
Load More Replies...Been across that bridge many times, it's a beautiful ride but never thought much about the cables holding it up.....hmm!!!
There Was A Billiard Ball Inside Of My Bocce Ball
Put it on a train track--the locomotive will destroy ANYTHING.
Load More Replies...Inside Of A CT Scanner Undergoing Maintenance
what an amazing machine that has saved so many lives.
Load More Replies...could easily use that for a part ship on a Sci fi movie and No-one would know
The producers would know when they saw the million dollar price tag for that thing. 😉
Load More Replies...Inside Of This Tomato Looks Like A Perfect Strawberry
Opened Up A Lighter And There Was Just Another Lighter Inside
Steel Core Inside A "Rubber" Bullet
That's why they hurt like f*ck. The rubber coating just prevents it from penetrating the skin.
Unfortunately they can also cause fatalities.
Load More Replies...most stuff can kill you if it´s just used with enough inhumane intent
Load More Replies...Rubber bullets aren't non lethal. Anything can kill you if you use it correctly, at a high speed or if you are malicious enough.
is this normal? or false advertising. I'm not sure could someone help lol
False advertising at its finest. Thanks for asking. In fact, the most common riot control round theses days is either a paintball or solid rubber variant.
Load More Replies...Cross-Section Of A Poppy Flower Before Blooming
Cross-Section Of A Whale Rib
Their bones are not as heavy as I thought. They're like bird bones, full of air pockets.
Bones are not solid most bones look like this on the inside, bird bones just have larger pockets in them. Keep in mind there is marrow and blood vessels running through your skeleton.
Load More Replies...lmao, I feel you! I was sooo uncomfortable looking at that!
Load More Replies...There Was A Bag Of Tiny Dice Inside My Bar Of Soap
You can buy these at some game stores. My local nerd shop sells them. I want one but they’re pricey.
Load More Replies...In my head, a confused and clichéd story emerges about role-players who sit in dark cellars for weeks and whose parents consider how they can persuade their offspring to practice more personal hygiene …
When I was a kid I came across special soap bars which had small toys inside to encourage kids to use them, but this is a whole other level.
there are companies specialised in this. it's their whole thing, puttin dice in bathbombs/soaps/candles/... . if bought unknowingly, i can see the confusion, but if bought knowingly, ... come on ...
One Of Our Chickens Just Laid A Jumbo Egg With Another Egg Inside
We had one like this once. The outside egg was very large and lumpy. Our immediate reaction was: I sure hope that poor chicken is okay.
Load More Replies...Damn, that must've hurt. Pretty sure the chicken is traumatized now
Manual Focus Camera Lens
It's just housing holding the different lenses at various distances. I think this is actually a zoom lens
Load More Replies...This is a particularly complex lens, a superwide or fisheye. A standard lens, like a 50mm on a 35mm camera, has a lot less going on inside, but it's still pretty cool
If it helps keep in mind like most everything ever invented it started with a more basic design, then piece by piece things were added over the years to improve functionality.
The Stacked Layers Of Anodes And Cathodes Inside Of A Duracell Battery
Traditional-technology batteries create a nominal 1.5 volts per "cell". AAAA, AAA, AA, C, and D batteries have one cell. the 9V above has six cells layered in series - 6 X 1.5v = 9v.
I remember reading about this but now I forgot the mechanism behind it. Something to do with redox reactions I think
i think i'm gonna cry over the fact that i can explain in detail why its like this
A Bowling Ball With Its Inside Exposed. I Found In The Woods
Repurposed. Kid's Halloween Snap-On Bracelet Cut Opened, Is Actually A Tape Measure
This type were banned years ago because they're so dangerous. That metal tape measure can slash right through a child's delicate wrist with catastrophic results.
my friend cut her arm open with one of these once in school, it was gruesome
Bought some from Walmart last year, cut one open, and it was made from a cheap flimsy material. So as a previous poster said making these types of slap bracelets (made from tape measurers) have been banned.
That doesn't necessarily mean they are banned. Just that the one you had was made from different materials.
Load More Replies...OMG this makes so much sense now! THAT'S why it hurt so much to put on a slap bracelet when I was a kid!
The Insides Of A Movie Theater Screen
I mean, they’ve got a projector, not a giant screen, right?
Load More Replies...When you're watching a movie, odds are there's a spotty teenager watching you in return out of boredom.
(Eons ago, when I worked at a movie theater, I actually did that)
Load More Replies...I think this is specifically an IMAX screen, as part of IMAX is that the sound comes from directly behind the screen, making it necessary for it to not be solid so the sound can penetrate the screen without being obstructed
It looks like a regular movie theater screen to me.
Load More Replies...You can stand there and wave and dance to the audience and they can't see you. But management can check on the audience too
I'm curious to know what theater that is. It looks extremely familiar. Auditorium 5?
The Inside Of A Fire Alarm Is Just A Simple Switch
I think the point here is to be consistent - older alarm switches would have pulled a heavier or more complex mechanism, the alarm switch has to remain easily identifiable however so while the technology got simpler the switch itself needs to stay the same.
I'm assume it's to make it more obvious that it's a fire alarm and to make it harder to accidentally "bump" and set it off.
Load More Replies...Hmmm, as a kid we were always told that these squirted an ink so in case of a prank, the perpetrator could be identified.
I'm not sure what you expected to find. That is all they are. lever goes down, alarm activates. What did you think would be in there? a dalmation with a firehat who ran around barking to people?
Although I never experienced it myself, I learned the fire alarms in my high school squirted a little ink when you pulled down, staining your hand. This was done to identify anyone who pulled the alarm. These days I imagine there are just cameras everywhere.
Did it though? Or did they tell kids that so they wouldn't pull the alarm? Kind of like the "water will change colour if you pee in the pool" thing.
Load More Replies...Pulled A Paper Wasp Nest From The Corner Of My Shed And It Left A Perfect Cross-Section
This one's abandoned thankfully. Wasps make and then leave these nests all the time.
Load More Replies...A black biting, not stinging bug, they were killing our wonder Julee mango tree, I wento burn the big nest on the side of a rock, fell and made a cut on it and poured gasoline. problem solved but my dog and myself, we were followed and bit.
Girlfriend gave me hers from her yard. Plan on sealing it and using in my card making. The texture is awesome.
Inside Of A Hose Looks Like A Water Balloon
But that looks like those hoses that shrink and expand. Regular rubber garden hoses do not have that
Flexible hoses only - normal garden hose is solid plastic (and completely uninteresting)
I really don't like the new trend of plumbing with flexible hose instead of copper piping. Because of what you see in the pic. They tend to burst of split dramatically instead of developing a slow leak over time. Friend had one burst in his ensuite. Probably 5 or 10 minutes after he left for work. His son woke up an hour or so later and the carpet was soaking wet even though the two rooms were opposite ends of the house. So in about an hour it put an inch of water through basically the whole house. Carpet in every room needed replacing, a heap of furniture and some electronics too. And they had about a fortnight of massive fans trying to dry out the walls. Fortunately the walls didn't need to be redone and insurance covered it. But was a massive mess.
That is one of those hoses that basically looks like surgical tubing inside coated by cloth or something to protect it on the outside. A charity I used to volunteer at got hardware donations (among other things) and over time I saw a lot of these. If a customer returned a thing for whatever reason it often ended up being given to us.
Yep, which is why I won't buy another of these hoses. What a waste of money.
The Die From The Inside Of A Magic 8-Ball
What's Inside The Breast Implant?
Big fake breasts are on their way out... again... nothing wrong with being natural. Hoping the huge lips and BBL's are next...
Nothing wrong with big fake breasts either. And no I don't have them. I have small fake breasts 🤷🏻♀️😄 Trends will always come and go. Just do you and let the rest do what they want. 🤷🏻♀️☺️
Load More Replies...Again, not all breast implants are like this. A lot are filled with saline.
Silicone possibly. They were found to be a potential problem so some implants are filled with saline (salt water).
The Inside Of A Bomb
Nonsense! •••••••••• This is an Inuit dugout filled with oversized blueberries from Chernobyl.
Humans have always been good at destroying things :)
Load More Replies...War what is it good for? Absolutely nothing say it again! and again and again. Eventually we may learn that lesson
It is not a bomb. It is a CBU dispenser. CBUs are better known as cluster bombs.
That's not at all true. Try finding the detonator in this picture. There isn't one.
I think it's meant to display how heavy the thing is my comparing it to a common object (seen on top)
Load More Replies...LMAO no. You clearly know nothing about nuclear weapons
Load More Replies...The Other Side Of A Fast Food Soda Fountain
I worked at Sonic for quite a while when I was younger. This is definitely what it looks like.
Load More Replies...Those bags of syrup are heavy! I used to change those at the movie theater when I was 19.
Oooooo - that brought back 25 year old memories! I can smell that room!
Quick tip: the lines connecting the syrup to the carbonation unit are almost never cleaned unless you have a manager who is absolutely about doing it by the book. It takes forever to do it properly.
Gen X here. I used to wrestle 2 foot tall steel canisters for the syrups in the 80s at McDonalds. Those look light by comparison.
The Inside Of This Golf Ball Looks Like A Boiled Egg
There was a grass fire near the local golf club when I was a kid. We retrieved dozens of gold balls that were suddenly visible in the neighbouring farmland because hey, no grass. Some of there were melted and you could see the "guts" of the ball. Some were solid and some were rubber band. And they came in a ton of colours.
Load More Replies...Those are hardworking hands - don't knock them if you have never done manual work!
Load More Replies...it's usually some kind of rubber or resin but can sometimes be a synthetic.
They used to be just a big ball of tightly stretched rubber bands around a hollow rubber center. We used to tear them apart as kids.
It is the egg of the reclusive liathróid gailf bird. Apparently, this egg has been left in the sun for quite some time and has hard boiled. Not so good for the hatchling, but desirable for a player. Eggs are usually found in shallow dens in the grass, which is where the game was originally designed, to return found eggs to their dens.
Accidentally Cut Open A Cheap Kid's Baseball With My Lawn Mower
That looks like a health hazard. I wonder where that waste material originated.
From trees I would guess. It is either wood chip or cork.
Load More Replies...It just looks like recycled material, we ARE reusing, are we not??
They forgot that famous Oxford comma. Why the kid gotta be so cheap...
The Inside Of An IKEA Desk Top
Fun fact: this structure allows almost the same strength if the desk was fully filled and uses a lot less material! It's used in most cardboards.
The same honeycomb structure is used in aircraft structure too.
Load More Replies...That's because hexagons are the bestagons (seriously, look for that video on YouTube, it's perfect)!
Despite looking cheap from the inside due to the materials used, this is actually an extremely good structural design due to the use of hexagons. Hexagonally shaped items can withstand massive amounts of force because they perfectly distribute it evenly among the six sides and corners, a feature that other shapes don't have or don't behave as well as six-sided figures. IKEA has the right idea (and no, I didn't intend for that to rhyme but maybe I just wrote their new ad slogan)
I busted open an interior door once. The core was made of cardboard cores that looked like they once held masking tape
You Can See The Inside Of An Etch A Sketch When You Color It Completely
I've tried doing this before, I got like two tiny rows done and gave up. It's harder than it looks
This Is What The Inside Of Different Golf Balls Looks Like
My Flannel Has A Piece Of Microfiber On The Inside To Clean Your Glasses
A flannel is like a thin fleece jacket or shirt. A brand called Dixxon makes them like this.
Ford Model T
Would be funny to see Daffy Duck in mid air a hundred feet farther up the road with a steering wheel in his hands
Not many remaining, despite their huge production runs: Henry Ford offered an extremely appealing trade-in on these virtually indestructible cars so as to create a market for the Model A. The Model Ts were recycled: the wooden body panels in a joint venture with Mr. King to produce charcoal BBQ briquettes.
In mid-1980's I restored a 1920 Model T same body style as pictured. The original owners manual gave you a step by step instruction on how to disassemble the automobile piece by piece. The second half of the manual was how to re-assemble the automobile piece by piece. Henry Ford was a genius !
Doorknob In My 1907 House Stopped Working, So I Took The Mechanism Apart To Fix It - This Is What A 113-Year-Old Door Latch Looks Like Inside
Peony Bud
The Sinkhole In Fukuoka. It Formed In Front Of Hakata Station And Took Two Days To Repair Everything
i don't think it took two days to repair EVERYTHING. maybe it took two days to repair the cables? EDIT: i googled: it really only took two days to repair the hole :D that's amazing! (Video: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/nov/15/japanese-workers-repair-road-48-hours-after-sinkhole-appears-video )
Only 2 days?? That's japanese efficiency. It took the my town hall 2 weeks to repair something like 1/10 of that...
It takes years over here to repair potholes...
Load More Replies...My friend Stephanie fell into a sinkhole in Los Angeles during a freak heavy rainstorm. It was all over the news here. She survived but it was super traumatic. Right after they rescued her, the car that was hovering just above the sinkhole fell in and smashed her car. It took over a month to repair.
This Is The Confetti Inside Of A Party Popper
Alright imma go cut some things up right now. If I don't return tomorrow, know that my mom has killed me for destroying things
I always as a kid and now open them up and put other stuff in like confetti or leaves or glitter (that’s what I used as a kid).
Someone Smashed A Tee Marker At This Golf Course I’m Playing At And This Was Inside
Or collect 3, put it on some soul sand, then summon a wither LOL
Load More Replies...Cross-Section Of Some Severe Termite Damage
I dont like this photo... for some reason it makes me uncomfortable
Porcelain Toilet Base In The Plumbing Lab At George Brown College
Any plumbers out there want to tell me why it needs to go up then down? Why can't it just go down?
If it just went down then your bowl would never have water in it. Going up then down creates a trap, providing a water seal, before going over the weir and down the back and into the sewer system.
Load More Replies...If it went straight down, there would be no water in the bowl. Gasses and bugs would come thru. Along with the bugs to kiss your butt.
This Tree Trunk Has Stars Inside
Airplane Wheel
OK I'm so geeky I actually recognised that photograph. It's a BAC TSR.2- A British experimental aircraft from the 1960s... I worry myself sometimes.
You're not a geek -you have a beautiful brain that can retain cool information. Meanwhile, I can't remember what I did 5 minutes ago...
Load More Replies...I Cut Open A 10-Year-Old Rubber Band Ball And Found That It Had Fused Together
Fossilized Conifer Cone From The Middle Jurassic (Pararaucaria Patagonica)
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
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The Inside Of A Piano
Ploom, a device that weaves fabric while you play Chopin.
Load More Replies...My piano can do this and it's so cool!! XD Makes the sound much brighter too...
Ive seen this before... its so fun to press the keys and see the moving parts
Jawbreakers Are Magical When Cut In Half
Statue Of Liberty
I was going to say “It’s much smaller than I imagined” 🤪
Load More Replies...They could have made it look like a human skeleton at least. That's lazy engineering.
Zippo Lighter
The Inside Of A Pinball Machine From 1992
I used to service pinballs and video games back in the 80's. I *LOVE* working on Pinballs. They are about as steam punk as you get. ;)
Whenever people ask me my fav 'video game' I always say pinball. I'm so glad there are folks that like fixing them as much as I like playing them!
Load More Replies...Sometimes the owners opened them like that to collect the money inside, and if you patiently waited aside like a well-behaved kid, they'd let you have some free games once they were finished.
I have one that’s even more mechanical inside than this, from 1976. It still works great.
A Friend Bought A N64 Game And Found This Inside
More like the previous owner was hiding his stash and forgot where he put it. Never hide your drugs while under the influence of drugs lol.
Load More Replies...When I was younger, I'm sure the favorite idiot of my friend group would be an excited lab rat to see what it is. Then if good, follow suit. Today? Not so much.
I Cut Open A Waspєs Nest And It Looks Like A Tiny Tree On A Hill
The Inside Of A Redbox Kiosk
Redbox is a company that used to rent out DVDs. You went up to the kiosk, usually found just out front or just inside a CVS drug store or Walmart, and got your choice of movie. These days with streaming and all, they not around so much. :/
Load More Replies...Cross-Sections Of Different Kinds Of Sword Blades
The first is the sharp one, the second the very sharp one, think the middle is the duarable one and the end is the ho hum, but it looks good one.
Load More Replies...In general: you want harder (but generally more brittle) steel along the cutting edges, so they can be reasonable sharp, and less brittle steel in the "core" so the entire thing doesn't break in two when you hit something. You can change the properties of steel via percentage of carbon (the more the harder and more brittle - more than 2,14% C and we are talking about cast iron), alloying (for example ~10% chrome for stainless steel), or changing the microstructure through shaping and/or keeping the steel at a certain temperature for a certain amount of time (fast cooling from high temp --> harder and more brittle; some time at lower temperatures --> softer and less brittle).
What The Inside Of A Freestyle Soda Machine Looks Like
A Cross-Section Of The Wire That Supplies Power To My House
My dad once cut a cable like that, thinking it was no longer connected. Luckily he was using a saw with a wooden handle, otherwise I would now be fatherless and have two brothers instead of the current four! : )
This USB Drive Is Just An SD Card Inside A Casing
This is a actually a scam. Most USB Thumb Drives are not this. If you see a suspiciously cheap USB drive this is most likely the case.
Is that a scam? Why would what's inside matter to the consumer as long as it stores the data that it proports to?
Load More Replies...Most reputable manufacturers don't use SD cards in their thumb drives. This one is most likely a cheapo chinese unit using a very low quality SD card so the read/write speeds would be terrible.
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Upholstered Chair From A 19th Century Austrian Palace
I don't understand why Lyop is being downvoted for asking an honest question. Can everyone stop doing this to people trying to gain knowledge? Please? As a horse owner, it doesn't look like horse hair, but I also don't know what it would look like after a bunch of time. I don't feel like this person was trying to be hateful. A lot of countries have dark pasts.
It's not the first part, the actual question, it's the statement afterwards. Also if you're genuinely curious, write that.
Load More Replies...It'll be horesehair. Apart from anything else we didn't really have slaves in western Europe.
Load More Replies...The Inside Of A Brand New Tissue Box
Or one ply of one tissue, and you never know which it'll be
Load More Replies...The Insides Of A Vanilla Bean
MMMM vanilla beans!! put it in a jar with sugar and get vanilla sugar!
If you like vanilla, try tonka beans. I know, they are not allowed in US , but rest of the world can use them and they are even more amazing. (Banned in US because they are technicaly poisonous, but you would have to eat a LOT of them. Danger dose is about 30 to 40 beans, one bean is enough to heavily flavour 3 to 4 liters of milk or two cakes, so it is not that dangerous)
Load More Replies...yes vanilla beans are brown, not white, how it has basically generations have been gaslighted.
A Cross-Sectional View Of Asphalt
We haven't got a banana for scale, but that looks way thicker than most asphalt coatings I've seen. If that were laid on our road, we'd have no curbs....
3.5mm Headphone Plug And Jack
Ferrari Enzo Cam And Oil Pump Drives
So beautiful - but this is like the party at the end of school, these last few decades - electric cars, yadda-yadda, - but . . . I don't the same beauty will be in the mechanism, any more than in any other appliance.
This Inside Of My Expired Credit Card
I've taken apart my parents old credit cards before, its really cool! They have different patterns and colors and stuff!
An Escalator In Madrid’s Subway
Pictures like this will forever make me think of that poor woman in China who fell through an unsecured panel into the working machinery underneath. She did not survive.
Escalators kill and injure a LOT more folks yearly than elevators.
The Insides Of My Cooktop Look Like A DJ's Turntables
Klopec and KWilly why do you hate your glass cook top? I'm not trying to be rude I just don't understand.
Well, I can't speak for them, but I will add my 2 cents: Bought it because it looks cool. Got it all set up and just hate the way it cooks. It's like I have to learn to cook and clean all over again. The old one was 40 years old, with the old time coils. The new one is 10X more powerful, even at lower temps. I have burnt so much! AND the cleaning: First, while it's warm, you take a razor blade and scrape off the residue; then, while still warm you squirt a special cleaner onto the surface, scrub that with a special pad, let it dry and then buff/polish it. Takes forever and results not guaranteed. BUT, I spent a bunch of $$ on it, so I WILL get used to it. Someday
Load More Replies...I have an induction one. Had to get new pans, but it heats everything so fast without burning and the cooktop never burns anything onto it like my old glass one, I love it! Cleans with a paper towel and some cooktop cleaner just by wiping.
Also, you can put a paper towel under your pot to keep the glass clean and it still works! I love my induction range.
Load More Replies...My Antibiotic Is A Tablet Inside Of A Capsule
to make it easier to swallow : the tablet would disentegrate too easily in contact with saliva and the taste would be gag-worthy :)
Load More Replies...Could be so the tablet is not immediately digested before reaching the position it needs to be. Slow release, in other words.
That should not be. You can have antibiotic 'tablets', or 'capsules' with tiny doses that are meant to dissolve far more quickly than a tablet. Whoever is selling that is breaking the law in most countries. There are legal definitions of types of medication. and their uses. *Which is more effective tablet or capsule? Capsule vs. Tablet? - GoodRx Better absorption: Capsules can have a higher bioavailability, meaning more of the medication enters your bloodstream, which makes them slightly more effective than tablets on average.23 Feb 2022*
FIFA Has Approved The Use Of Semi-Automated Offside Technology For The 2022 World Cup In Qatar
There's a chip inside every official match ball, with 12 dedicated tracking cameras in each stadium to enhance fairness and fan 'enjoyment'.
7.62x54R 7N13 AP (Armour Piercing) Ammo Cutaway
Genuine question, how do you cut open a live bullet without it blowing up?
They probably emptied it out, cut it, then filled it again
Load More Replies...the bottom is armor piercing. the top is just normal FMJ. It would have a black tip if the top was armor piercing.
Are the black pellets the propellent (the gunpowder)?
Load More Replies...Firework Shell
It because the main component is still black powder. It's what they mix with that powder that gives it the color when it burns (copper, titanium, etc.)
Load More Replies...Inside A $200 Industrial Power Supply Unit
That would not pass any EU or US safety laws for sale - this is against every safety code in both, which have set internal designs that are widely distributed (easily find a picture of legally required layout for safety reasons on google). This place got scammed bad, this is very much illegal.
It looks like an import from unreputable factory.
Load More Replies...That is actually ingenious. Someone took $2 worth of equipment, made it look fancy, and charged $200.
Client Is Renovating An Old Bank Into A Medical Office. Here's The Insides Of The Safe Door
Usually the reaction stainless steel has when heated.
Load More Replies...What The Inside Of A Concrete Mixer Drum Looks Like
That actually looks like the drum of the vehicle that brings you readymixed, rather than a standard 'concrete mixer'. Welding the veins on these when manufacturing them was an awful job, because it was tight AND echoed, so noise levels were seriously enough to deafen.
And at some point when the build up gets to be to much , someone has to crawl in there and hammer it out.
Car Cassette Adaptor
As labeled, made so you could play those new portable CD players in older cars that only took cassette tapes. Before Apple did away with the 3.5 ml jack port, I attempted to listen to YouTube in my truck with one of these, but only produced static.
They make Bluetooth cassette adapters now. A couple cars ago I had one and it worked great, included a microphone and all.
Load More Replies...The Inside Of This Cheap Door Is Filled With Cardboard
We had these on the back and front door when we bought our house, we replaced them both with solid wooden doors.
Collection Of Cutaway Padlocks
The Inner Workings Of Shaving Cream
I Found This Iron With A Stone Inside
That stone is put in the fire/on the stove to heat up and then is inserted into the iron to provide the heat.
The Insides Of A LED Light Bulb
its only a very specific type. Most use a flat round board with little led chips on it. Other use an LED "filament" strip with a bunch of LED chips in series. this is actually a pretty crappy/hacky version. If you really want to see a lot of LED types, check bigclivedotcom on youtube.
Load More Replies...My RV is full of LED bulbs that are also used in turn signals on cars. They look like this straight out of the package
M82A91 “Silver Bullet” Tank Shell
For those curious, the needle-like thing is the projectile in this round. The strange ring around it is called the sabot, and falls off. For more info, Google "flechette"
also this is a M829A4 not whatever that mess is up there that they typed.
Asked before on another post, but are the black tablets the propellent (the gunpowder)?
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Inside Of A Wind Turbine Tower
I’m guessing the stirrup-looking fixtures on the ladder are for attaching body harness lanyards as you go. Still, the orthostatic shock of the fall would be pretty bad.
Most modern fall arrest harnesses have load-limiters built into them so you don't come to a sudden stop at the end of the tether.
Load More Replies...If you stand at the bottom of a tall one and look up, you can see it sway.
Load More Replies...What The Inside Of A Gas Pump Looks Like
Cut The Top Of An Old Fire Extinguisher
My Wooden Cutting Board Fell Apart And Revealed A Bunch Of Little Wooden Slats Inside
Looks more like bamboo which is typically very thin material. It is a type of grass after all...
that's what I was thinking! imagine how hard that is to clean!
Load More Replies...but putting them crosswise below the uprights adds strength to the cutting area (shame they didn't put the ends on properly though.)
What The Inside Of An Inflatable Paddle Board Looks Like
There was a pic of an air mattress like this - what purpose do the silky type fibres play?
They are used to give rigidity and shape to the paddle board, otherwise it would just end up looking like a large balloon.
Load More Replies...Gas Pump Nozzle
I don't know about soon, there will very likely still be petrol and diesel powered vehicles on our roads for at least another 20+ years.
Load More Replies...Inside Of A Starbucks Espresso Machine
OMG Starbucks is so gross, thought I was the only one!!!
Load More Replies...My Jawbreaker That Has My Face Cramping, Cut In Half
We didn't get them often but when we did we would lick them into a square shape.
Stating a fact. That seems like a reasonable reason to get downvoted /s
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Seawater Valve Used For Firefighting Aboard Ships
Doesn’t show the marine strainer, so your fire hose isn’t clogged with baby squids and jellyfish
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Dentition From The Inside
It's a coloured mould of their teeth. Perhaps made to fashion a dental plate.
Inside Of A Tumbler Doll
The Inside Of The Balloon Weights
The Inside Of A Photo Booth
Want to see something impressive look in one of the originals before digital.
True. Back in those days there was a little guy with a Polaroid camera.
Load More Replies...Motorcycle Tire
This is actually a dirtbike tire, but a dirtbike is basically an offroad motorcycle.
So it's a motorcycle tire then. Just like the title says.
Load More Replies...The Inside Of A Keurig Cup
You can get some that are fully compostable. The coffee's pretty good too.
The Inside Of An Xbox Controller
I've seen this before, and then some. My son likes to take his apart and try to fix them, when they get stick-drift, etc. Fortunately, he's pretty good at putting them back together again. But I still don't like him doing it, and I've told him to stop. We pay for those warranties for a reason, lol!
Should be. They have just removed the faceplate.
Load More Replies...I Found This Opened McDonald's Kiosk During My Trip In Netherland
The Inside Of A Oculus Controller
The Insides Of Nerf Gun
those things especially the super ones hurt like hell. what happened to the simple ones where they couldnt be deconstructed when you wanted to change the power of it???
Not most, that one probably has some lights on it.
Load More Replies...I think this one is the one that ur talking about.
Load More Replies...What The Inside Of A Drill Looks Like
Inside Of My 10-Year-Old Xbox One
Just stripped my eldests Xbox one X last night, cleaned thoroughly and reapplied thermal paste. The difference in heat and sound is next level.
Inside Of The Dinosaur's Bone
That's what you are SUPPOSED to be seeing. CU89qZ3-64...08dce4.jpg
Some of us are seeing the wrong pictures BP, definitely not a dinosaur bone.
These were all very interesting. We need more content like these on bored panda.
15 minutes ago there were 127 of these, now there's 50. I don't like that
you can just click on the '127' button at the end of the shortened list, Bored P. does that a lot... can't figure out why sometimes when they cut a list from 53 to 50. AND they never cut the AITA wedding stories!!!
Load More Replies...Sorry you feel this way... I loved most of the entries.
Load More Replies...These were all very interesting. We need more content like these on bored panda.
15 minutes ago there were 127 of these, now there's 50. I don't like that
you can just click on the '127' button at the end of the shortened list, Bored P. does that a lot... can't figure out why sometimes when they cut a list from 53 to 50. AND they never cut the AITA wedding stories!!!
Load More Replies...Sorry you feel this way... I loved most of the entries.
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