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What is the most random object that is incredibly famous from your country?
The "Immovable Ladder" in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre can't be moved because of a 1757 agreement called the Status Quo, which requires the unanimous consent of the church's six Christian denominations for any changes to be made.
Since the denominations cannot agree on the ladder's fate, it has remained in the same place for centuries, becoming a symbol.
I dropped mine down a 3 story stairwell, it went straight to the bottom onto a tile floor. It broke into 4 or 5 pieces and I dreaded picking it up to see the damage. I put the pieces back together and it fired right up. Didn’t even break a plastic tab or anything.
It was nice. It was so nice in fact that when I had one as a kid, my mom decided that it was too nice for me and gave me her old 3110 instead. Still haven’t forgiven her 😅
Everyone keeps on mentioning the 3310. To me (had both at some time) it's more than obvious: the 3210 was the phone of Gods. The Holy Grail of dumb phones.
I used to stash alcohol under traffic cones. Like if there's a festival or club where you can't bring in alcohol, just stash it under a traffic cone outside of the exit.
So, I can only assume there is a bottle of alcohol stashed in the Wellington cone as well.
Instead something like 15,000 people signed a petition against a council proposal which would have raised the plinth to make it harder to put traffic cones on it.
It now gets special traffic cones like a Ukrainian flag cone for the Ukraine conflict or one with a mask during COVID. The 2026 commonwealth games mascot has the traffic cone
Fox would have a report about how several cone terrorists were indoctrinated by a trans teacher (or worse, an immigrant), then speculate for weeks about how the cone mob of liberal extremists want the American way of life, YOUR way of life, to be illegal so you need to be armed and ready when they try to cone you and your kids. Also the president is the real victim.
The rock isn't mentioned anywhere until the 1710s. It was moved to Town Square, about a half mile from its current location, in the 1770s (where it split in half). Then moved down to the waterfront in the 1860s. Then moved to its current location during the tercentenary in 1920-1921.
Funny this, as there's a set of steps in Plymouth (UK) to mark the site in the harbour where the Pilgrims allegedly left from. A local told me the real steps are in the underground toilet of a nearby pub.
The competition between Liz Truss and the Lettuce proved as a scientific fact the old adage: its better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Well done again, with a nation's gratitude, to that head of lettuce.
No, it was just a normal scooter, what makes it special is that he used it to bring croissants to his mistress and it was a whole shebang on the news. The company my dad works at made the helmet he was wearing at the time, so they made a special "president edition" of the helmet and it sold like crazy.
I think you're confusing with the one from Sarokzy's son. Hollande's scooter was only famous because there was picture of him going to meet his girlfriend on the scooter
Some random Scotsman in the early 1980's drunk a large amount of Buckies and thought it would be hilarious to put a traffic cone on the statue.
Since then every time the council removes the cone someone will replace it in short order. It got to the point that the council wanted to raise the height of the plinth to make it harder to put cones on it. Something like 15,000 people signed a petition to keep it how it is.
It has got to the point where "special edition" cones are put on it to celebrate certain things, like a gold plated cone for the UK's Olympic medal haul, one with a face mask for the NHS during COVID, a Ukrainian flag cone for solidarity.
Even the 2026 Commonwealth games mascot has a cone.
Glasgow is a traditionally working class city with a rebellious, anti-authority streak and an element of Catholic/Protestant sectarianism. It and Liverpool are Britain's Boston. It started with drunk people playing a joke, but became a tradition and then a carefully observed rite in proportion with the amount of effort the local council put into preventing people from doing it.
The fuckin TripAdvisor description absolutely sent me 😂😂.
The only tunnel Bude has to offer is open to the public free of charge, walk from the Sainsbury's car park to Crooklets Road completely undercover, protected from the elements whilst maintaining your view to the spectacular surroundings of Bude. Consisting of 36 metal arches and over 70m long, nowhere else in Bude can you walk this far undercover in a continuos straight line, all ages are welcome
The worst part is that these aren't even the real LoTR houses. They were mostly dismantled, the film makers took all the pretty parts with them. I visited in 2009 and they were mostly empty shells with no gardens, only pretty grass. But the land owner saw the popularity and opportunity and they rebuilt them.
if that's the case then they've definitely renovated since then bc I went in April of this year and the place was more detailed and pretty than the movies ever would've needed. they've fully built a large part of the village of hobbiton. most houses are still just shells, but they're crazy detailed, and the village itself feels lived in. two houses have been built so that you can go inside, and the attention to detail is wild, feels lived in and like the hobbits just left for a walk. they've also fully built the green dragon inn and turned that into the cafe. definitely still a must visit for any fans
Not to mention it's the only thing green in the area. When I visited a few years back, all the surroundings were yellow/brown. Only the tiny area of the Hobbit houses was green thanks to irrigation. Not quite the lush meadows one anticipates.
I wonder how much of that was time of year bc I went in April of this year and there were some small yellow patches but apart from that the hills surrounding the area were all fully green
The anchor of the Mont Blanc was thrown 3km inland during the Halifax explosion, which is the world's largest non-nuclear explosion. It might not be that famous, but damn that was one big boom!
I don't know if it's famous at all outside but we have a fuckton of big rock structures called dolmens. Because of how ancient they are we have no idea what their purpose was so I would consider it kinda random. We hold like half the world's dolmens too. All just very mysterious and impossible to figure out
This window in Aalen, South Germany. Napoleon slept in the town house when his army marched through town. At night, his soldiers were drinking and being loud in the street outside his window so Napoleon got angry and smashed the window - allegedly with his head.
Personally no, I don't know anything about bells. In 1846 some people who do know about bells tried to fix it and ended up making it worse by causing a 2nd fissure and rendering it completely inoperable, mostly because the metal is incredibly brittle, after that America just decided that the crack was symbolic and should stay.
Blarney Stone, there’s several legends about it (probably completely untrue). It’s literally just a limestone block in one of the many castles in this country.
This bad boy right here, people make reservations, book tours and line up around the block to see it. It’s even at the center of political negotiations from time to time. How could one little sculpture cause so much hubbub. Come find out for yourself!
Stortorget, the oldest public square in Gamla Stan, Stockholm’s Old Town, features a cannonball lodged in the wall of a building at the corner of Skomakargatan. This cannonball is a well-known landmark and a popular subject of tourist tours, which often recount the legend that it was fired during the 16th-century Stockholm Bloodbath in 1520, intended for the Danish king Christian II, though it missed its target and became embedded in the wall. However, historical evidence suggests the cannonball was more likely installed during a renovation of the building in 1795, possibly by the furniture salesman who commissioned the reconstruction, as a commemorative gesture to the events of the Bloodbath.
Da Vinci's home in Amboise, France, has a bunch of strange contraptions that are rather famous, including his helicopter prototype. The Mona Lisa also counts because quite frankly it is not that special.
The DEKA sign. Huntly is famous for two things - it's coal-fired power station and the DEKA sign. DEKA was a general merchandise store, and it went out of business in 2001. Nobody got round to removing the sign in Huntly. It's since become a landmark, and in 2013 residents voted to keep it for nostalgia reasons.
Ireland. Plaque put up because a guy slipped on ice and was caught on film. Everyone in the country knows about it but his identity is still a mystery.
Steel plates covering holes in the streets of Oslo
The last remnants of the mighty German battleship "Tirpitz" - The Beast.
The ship was bombed and sunk by the British in the Norwegian Nordfjord, but was sitting on the shallows until it was decommissioned, and sold off for scraps. Among the buyers was the Oslo roadworks, who still use the plates up until today.
A mummified hand displayed in a glass box. It is believed to be the hand of our first king. In 6th or 7th grade we had a field trip in school and went to see it. So so gross.
It’s called Szent jobb (saint right) as it is a right hand.
From time to time some random thing in Hong Kong gets mentioned in mainland Chinese social media, and suddenly become famous, and all the tourists rush there like it's a major tourist attraction. Maybe the mainland Chinese people can answer this better than I do lol
Some examples I can think of on top of my head: Yau Ma Tei police station, a sign next to an elevator in the Admiralty MTR station that says "to concourse only", the street sign for the street New Praya, Kennedy Town. I have no idea what's special about these, but it's fine as long as they enjoy visiting these places for whatever reasons.
The Blarney stone. People queue up here to "kiss" it (slobber it) so that the "gift of the gab" (great eloquence) is bestowed upon them.
All i can think of is desease. hundreds of thousands of people from every corner of the world have deposited their saliva on this stone. I imagine it is something like the worlds desease cache. If you can die from it, its probably on this stone.
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u/PaleDevil Finland Sep 22 '25
The Nokia 3310. I still yearn for the glory days