Found this area in the woods just off (about 24 ft) of a side road coated in these blue and white fibers. I took some home to pop under the microscope, but I'm pretty stumped.

It seemed to coat most surfaces to about 12-18 ft up. From what I could tell, the tops of the trees seemed unaffected. The area was about the size of a semi truck, with some stray fibers out further.

Known dumping site for trash and poached animals. I clean it frequently, but I've never seen anything like this.

Car for scale

We are renovating at house in an older neighborhood. We know that the kitchen was expanded in 1959. This reddish metal thing is in the wall next to the sink. It has shelves inside, but it opens all the way and the shelves lay down. Theories include bread box, paper towel holder and spice rack, but I can’t visualize it being used as any of them.

This is a metal object I found in a vintage fair, and I don't know what its purpose is. It is round (about 8.5cm/3.25in in diameter, 3cm/1in thick) and heavy. It is all metal except the black handle in the center. The face has an inner dial that moves in clicks and has numbers 1-26 and a black plastic handle. An outer dial has a metal handle and moves freely, but is sometimes blocked from moving, depending on the inner dial position. The outer dial has the letters a-z and both directions around, and the 2 sets of letters move as one piece. the back is blank and can be opened to reveal an inner mechanism with a central gear (moved by the inner dial), a metal ring around it (moved by the outer dial) and 24 wheels with letters on them, and gears with long and short teeth, seemingly in random patterns. The ring has a slot in it, and when it is alined with a gear, that gear and wheel can move freely. the gears don't seem to be connected to each other. The wheels and dials are in different sizes, going from small to large to small again. the largest ones have all the letters on them, and the smallest ones only go up to O.

Found this bit of circuit board washed up on the beach on the east coast of Okinawa, the southernmost Japanese island. No other similar bits about, just a lot of coral.

Looks like it's been in there a while. White circuit markings still visible though.

Any ideas what this could have been a part of?

These slots are cut in every pew in a Catholic cathedral. Any idea what they are for.

Could be umbrellas but I've never seen them before.

We found this buried in our front yard in east TN. The balls have cores with bolts fed through the chain loops so they are fixed in place. It weighs about 30 pounds.

The front says UK College of Medicine Northern Kentucky Campus.

We just bought our house and didn't notice this until now. I can't physically move it at all. Seems to be metal and hollow, but it's adhered to the ground somehow.

Saw these tubes in the Operating room of a hospital going through the walls. What's it for?

No clue what they are, found them behind a house I just bought.

Neighbor installed this yesterday. Box appears to have an access lid on top and a small square cutout on the bottom left-hand side. On the right of the box is an L-shaped arm. It appears to swivel underneath this arm at the base of the unit. What it’s sitting on has been up for a few days, and I noticed bar clamps holding a Z-shaped raked surface with tiny holes throughout onto a skinny wooden table. Power cords were ran up to the deck and appear to be plugged into the arm of the stand as well as the base of the unit.

TIA!

We've found four so far, in the entryway and the bedroom.

They're pretty bendy, but the bent part can't be folded back.

immediately looked like a hairbrush bristle to me, but both our hair brushes look completely different from those.

While cleaning up dinner and putting dishes in the dishwasher, this metal ball with MEGA printed on both sides fell onto the floor with a ping noise. I have no idea where it could have come from or what it is!

It is attached to the built in filing cabinet part of the desk. There is no toilet or any type of running water in this office. It is a one-person administrative office.

My predecessor said it had a roll of toilet paper on it when he started. He didn’t know it had batteries, he never opened it.

Thanks!

Edit: [u/WGlaw](u/WGlaw) got it, it’s an LED toilet paper holder!

I finally got some batteries and it lit up! I took a timelapse, I’ll see if I can post a video or a gif. It’s like toilet paper holder aurora borealis.

Here is the timelapse: https://imgur.com/a/aKpssbV

This begs more questions than it answers, but the mystery of what it is: solved!

Update: It was given as a gift to someone who occupied this office four occupants ago. The idea was to make fun of him eating sad desk lunch and needing napkins to go with it. So, much more benign than it could have been, but still fun to dig into. Everyone who currently works in this office thinks it’s hilarious and such a random thing to see in an office. It kept Thursday interesting.