50+ Finds with Unknown Purposes until The Internet Came to the Rescue

We highly recommend taking your butts down to your local thrift store whenever you have the chance. You never know what kind of magical, valuable object you’ll come across. In this person’s case, they found three dishes with a hole in the center of each and couldn’t for the life of them figure out what it was.

Expert bakers and historians pointed out that there was a crucial component missing from this piece—a rod. This is a 3-tier dessert stand, but it can only stand up if there’s a rod in the center holding the dishes up. Not too exciting, but hey, you learn something every day.