Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. And we’ve known about it for quite a while.
Leonardo da Vinci, for example, described seeing characters in natural markings on stone walls, which he believed could help inspire his artworks. And in the 1950s, the Bank of Canada had to withdraw a series of banknotes because people saw a grinning devil leaping from the curls of the Queen’s hai.
#1 The Evolved Radish
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#2 This Pumpkin In Our Garden Split And It Looks Like It Has Teeth
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#3 The Skin On My Apple Kinda Looks Like The Silhouette Of A Camel
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#4 She Thought He Did Not Carrot All, But He Bought Her 21-Carrot Ring
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#5 Foot Shaped Radish Goes On Display
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#6 This Onion Looks Like An Angry Bird
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#7 After Stewing In His Emotions, Emo Veg Comes To The Conclusion That The Root Of The World’s Problems Is That People Don’t Seem To Carrot All
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#8 It Looks Exactly Like Larry Bird
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#9 My Carrot Looks Like A Person
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#10 So Aparrotly This Is Milkweed
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#11 Going To Have To Eat This Chicken As It Hasn’t Laid A Single Bloody Egg Yet
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#12 Oh The Horrors
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#13 I Don’t Think I Can Eat This Potato
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#14 My Dad’s Onion Looks Like Strong Bad
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#15 My Wife’s Bell Pepper Looks Like A Big Nosed Grumpy Old Man Smoking A Cig
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#16 This Potato Looks Like A Seal
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#17 Alien Pickle
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#18 This Potato Looks Like An Evil Sloth
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#19 This Cucumber Looks Like A Swan
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#20 This Yam Looks Like A Human Hand
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#21 My Sister Grew A Carrot That Looks Like Arnold
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#22 Naughty Pears
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#23 This Peanut Looks Like A Duck
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#24 My Potato Looks Like It’s Trying To Escape Itself
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#25 Kawaii Gourd
#26 I Thought This Gourd Looked Like A Snail
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#27 Best Eggplant Ever
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#28 This Purple Carrot Looks Like A Bartender Ready To Take Your Drink Order And Listen To Your Troubles
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#29 My Sweet Potato Looks Like A Sea Lion
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#30 F**k You Too, Broccoli
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#31 Brilliant Spider-Man Homecoming Cosplay
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#32 The Goddess Lives
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#33 This Banana Looks Exactly Like My Mom’s Dog
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#34 This Tomato Looks Like A Duck
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#35 My Wife’s Potato Looks Like Admiral Ackbar
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#36 This Incredible Carrot Hand Was Found While Digging Juice Carrots At Our Farm Today
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#37 Baked Potato
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#38 The Tomato We Grew Looks Like Sauron’s Eye
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#39 We Grew An Eggplant That Looks Like The Poop Emoji
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#40 This Tomato Looks Like A Rubber Duckie
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#41 I Grew A Rare Bell Pepe
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#42 My Celeriac Scared The Devil Out Of Me
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#43 This Tomato That Grew In Our Garden Is Shaped Like A Butterfly
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#44 This Vegetable Looks Like An Ood From Dr. Who
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#45 This Cucumber Looking Like A Duck
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#46 Pear That Looks Like A Kiwi (Bird)
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#47 This Jalapeño Looks Like A T-Rex
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#48 An Exceptionally Suave And Sophisticated Daikon Radish
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#49 That’s A Sweet Beartato
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#50 I Present To You A Buddha’s Hand Fruit, Looks Like An Octopus
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#51 This Strawberry Looks Like A Butterfly
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#52 This Carrot Wants To Be An Astronaut
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#53 The Sad Mr. Ugly Veg
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#54 The Devil Is In The “Ugly” Fruit And Veg
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#55 This Tomato Looks Like A Duck
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#56 This Gigantic Potato That Looks Like Sid From Ice Age
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#57 This Strawberry I Found Looks Like Mario
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#58 Both The Banana Slice And My Dog Just Thinking Right Now – What The Hell Is So Funny Steve?
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#59 Let Us Out
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#60 This Small Red Potato Looks Like An Anatomical Heart
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#61 I Thought There Was A Severed Finger In My Fruit Bowl. It Was Just Some Ginger
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#62 My Friend’s Smoked Cauliflower Looks Like An Explosion
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#63 This Strawberry I Found Is Shaped Like A Perfect Flower
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#64 I’m Seeing Tomato Elephants
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#65 I Found A Man’s Face In My Watermelon
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#66 Scary Figure Inside This Cabbage
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#67 My Friend Found A Lemon Shaped Like An Elephant
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#68 The Happiest Potato I’ve Ever Seen
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#69 This Beet That Is Perfectly Shaped Like A Human Heart
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#70 My Ginger Root Looks Like A Lobster
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#71 This Stem Looks Like A Person Who Stepped In A Tomato
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#72 Zucchini Swansh
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#73 This Pumpkin That Looks Like A Swan
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#74 This Pumpkin Stem Looks Like A Dragon
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#75 A Rather Sinister Onion
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#76 Grumpy Cat Apple
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#77 This Potato Looks Like A One-Eyed Canadian From South Park
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#78 Usually They’re Pretty Freaked Out
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#79 This Giant Beet From My Garden Looks Like A Heart
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#80 My Boyfriend’s Homegrown Potato Looks Like The Reddit Icon
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#81 This Sweet Potato We Got That Looks Like A Bird
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#82 This Sweet Potato That Looks Like A Human Heart
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#83 My Apple Looks Like Its Still Loading
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#84 Tomato My Wife Grew vs. One Our Friends Bought
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#85 This Carrot Looks Like It’s Walking
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#86 Booberries
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#87 My Homegrown Cucumber Slices Into Happy Faces
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#88 Buff Carrot
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#89 This Pepper Is About To Sneeze
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#90 My Mom Cut Into Her Carrot And Found A Smiley Face
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#91 I Sliced Open This Green Pepper To Reveal A Smiley Face On Both Halves
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#92 Piece Of Ginger Looks Like A Disembodied Finger
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#93 This Tomato From My Garden Is Shaped Like A Bunny Head
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#94 This Bell Pepper I Cut At Work Looks Like Happy And Sad Faces
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#95 Creepy Piece Of Fruit
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#96 Work In Food Production, Found A Baby Carrot We All Thought Was A Human Finger At First
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#97 This Potato That Looks Like A Lobster
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#98 My Ginger Root Looks Like A Sitting Elephant
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#99 Hmmm
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#100 This Eggplant Has A Face
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#101 The Veggie Wars Have Begun
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#102 The Way This Tomato From My Garden Looks Like A Giant Ant Is Eating It
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#103 This Strawberry Looks Like A Little Guy
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#104 This Berry In My Drink Looks Like A Little Octopus
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#105 Sliced Green Pepper In Half And It Decided To Smile Back At Me
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#106 I Found Two Blueberries Fused Together. It Looks Like A Pair Of Eyes
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#107 Inside Of This Tomato Looks Like A Perfect Strawberry
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#108 This Deformed Apple That Looks Like A Big Nosed Smoker
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#109 This Onion Came With A Happy Face
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#110 Vegetable Looks Like A Giant Foot
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#111 This Piece Of Ginger Looks Like A Rabbit
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#112 My Ginger Has A Gnome Growing From It
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#113 My Dad Found This Little Guy While Peeling Some Vegetables
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#114 This Blueberry Looks Like An Owl’s Head
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#115 This Japanese Eggplant Looks Like A Bird
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#116 This Sweet Potato Looks Like A Happy Little Whale
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#117 Oh No, I Grew An Evil Bell Pepper
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#118 Probably A Good Listener
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#119 A Cherry Tomato That Looks Like It Has Horns Like Satan
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#120 It’s What’s On The Inside That Counts
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#121 The Rare Dragon Pepper – Guaranteed To Breath Fire And Spice Into Your Meal
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#122 My Ginger That Looks Like A Lobster
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#123 There’s Small Pepper Growing Out Of Our Larger One Which Ironically Looks Like A Baby
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#124 This Vegetable Sort Of Looks Like Snoopy
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#125 Potato Man
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#126 Half-Human Half-Carrot
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#127 Found This Happy Kiwi In My Lunch Yesterday
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#128 Banana Slice Looks Like A Sad Bichon Frise Dog
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