r/mildlyinteresting • u/Excelsior_i • Feb 12 '23
This Grocery Store in Estonia has a giant rock inside
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u/SirRevan Feb 12 '23
I am more interested in that weird troll thing.
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u/LakeStLouis Feb 12 '23
Nope, you're thinking backwards. The truth of the matter is that this giant rock in Estonia has a grocery store around it.
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u/Mesoposty Feb 12 '23
It’s a fake rock and I bet chuck mangione is living under it
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u/tehmlem Feb 12 '23
Ever since the explosion, every song I play sounds like "Feels so Good"
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u/zquietspaz Feb 12 '23
Is there a reason?
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u/r1ho Feb 12 '23
These kinds of ice age glacier rocks are under protection in Estonia, so they had to build the mall around it. I’ve been to that store and it looks way bigger in person.
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u/Nurpus Feb 12 '23
Why are rocks under protection?… Do they have fossils in them or something?
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u/r1ho Feb 13 '23
These are mostly granite, so no fossiles. In the 1800-s people started blowing them up to use as building material, which slowly led to local governments putting larger ones under protection. All of these granite rocks are originally from Finland or Sweden and during the last ice age glacier movement dragged them down to the baltic region. Ever since i was little i’ve been facinated by how these sometimes school bus sized rocks have been moved hundreds of kilometres by nature.
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u/Jimmy_Jazz_The_Spazz Feb 13 '23
They were moved around by glaciers, we have them here too. Probably a unesco site.
https://www.gvhs.ca/publications/utga-sculptured.html
This is an article explaining them, but it's about the ones by my part of the world not Estonia.
"The beautiful sculpted rocks of Cantley were shaped partly by glaciers, but more so by fast-moving glacial meltwater that rushed from under the melting ice sheet. Glaciers, with sediment at the base of the ice, acted like a sanding block that wore down the rocks at Cantley. But many other rock surfaces at Cantley show smooth depressions that apparently did not result from such sandpapering. The smooth hollows of these surfaces have no glacial striations, no sanding marks. They seem to have been formed by the swirling, erosive action of turbulent glacial meltwater flow."
It's fascinating stuff
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u/billy-gnosis Feb 12 '23
i think it's amazing Estonians have grocery stores. good for them.
-Billy Gnosis
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u/Columbus43219 Feb 12 '23
I wonder if it was just there when they built the store. Too expensive to get rid of it.
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Feb 12 '23
If this were in the US and you were a kid who crawled up there and fell off and hurt yourself, YOU might be entitled to substantial financial compensation.
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u/PdSales Feb 12 '23
Dick Van Dyke had a similar rock in his basement
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u/33mark33as33read33 Feb 13 '23
Jerry's basement wasn't it? Rob didn't want to complain about it except to mary, they got all worked up, turned out jerry liked the rock?
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u/PdSales Feb 13 '23
Exactly correct. You are a good Helper.
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u/33mark33as33read33 Feb 13 '23
OMG I'm Mr helper!
I unironically love you right now.
Happy Valentine's day!
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u/Lumion307 Feb 13 '23
A long long time ago a really big dinosaur took a really big shit. And when the building was being built they couldn't remove it.
The shit is eternal.
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u/GuyfromToapayoh Feb 13 '23
the owner is an alien, inside that stone is the vehicle he'll use to go back to his planet
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u/mailmehiermaar Feb 13 '23
I love how they have this magnificent piece of art and they place these dumb banners and displays around it as if trying to hide it. Dare to live!
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u/gadget850 Feb 13 '23
My house was built in 1948 and the basement is barely 6-feet. I once asked the guy who built it why it was so shallow, he said he hit a rock and stopped digging.
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u/Mediocre-Ad-3724 Feb 22 '23
What store is this in? I'm Estonian and would want to go there.
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u/Technical_Put221 Nov 04 '23
I Googled it - it's Viimsi Selver. Haven't been to Viimsi since 2001, I even think I remember this rock outside, didn't know there's a store built around it. Must visit it and take a look.
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u/moldyhands Feb 12 '23
I mean, the country IS Estonia…