Things you have just found out that have blown your mind.

[Strictlyfanoftenyears]

I have just found out that the "sticky backed plastic" on Blue Peter was actually "sellotape" but they werent allowed to advertise it. How did I not know this?🤔

Really? I thought sticky-backed plastic came in big sheets. Have never watched Blue Peter though…

What blew my mind recently was watching Bluey and noticing that Bandit has markings like a balaclava (or a bandit…) and Stripe has a stripe 😅

What?
no it wasn’t… they used sheets (with patterns) to cover cereal boxes etc - it was large and decorative

I thought it was the stuff we had to cover our textbooks with at the start of each year at secondary school.

No it wasn't, it was Fablon
www.homebase.co.uk/brands/fablon.list

Definitely not sellotape, as PPs said, they used sheets of coloured stuff.

"Sticky back plastic" was Fablon or similar
"Sticky tape" was Sellotape

Blue Peter used 'sticky tape' instead of Sellotape. Sticky backed plastic was sheeted sticky plastic that I could only dream of having

That’s it - Fablon, couldn’t think of the name

As PP have said, sticky back plastic isn't sellotape it's fablon, which is the main reason we could never make any stuff off Blue Peter as kids cos it was too expensive.

Phew, maybe Im not stupid after all! 😂

My mind is blown that someone thought sticky backed plastic was Sellotape.

I found out that they don't take the old kidneys out when doing a kidney transplant. Thought someone was having me on, but it's confirmed by the NHS website!

That oysters are alive when people eat them?! 🤯

Oh and the fact that some stars you can see don't exist anymore!

The majority of the world's population has more than the average (mean) number of limbs.

So obvious when you think about it...

That pineapples grow on the ground. When I saw some on holiday years ago my mind nearly exploded. You expect them to grow on trees or at least bushes, not just pop up on the ground!

That Igglepiggle is forever doomed to sail across the ocean in his little boat and only when he sleeps and dreams does he see his friends, otherwise he is all alone for all eternity.
I may or may not have cried more than a little bit when I clocked this…

It was double sided sticky tape wasn’t it?

That percentages can be inversed. So 68% of 50 is the same as 50% of 68. DS came home with that last week.

That woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth whilst the Pyramids were being built!

That revolting Dan Hodges at the Mail is Glenda Jackson's son!

I'm 40+ and have only recently learned that the stealth bomber is only invisible to radar, not actually invisible.

I'm actually really disappointed

Did not know this.

No it wasn’t, they called sellotape “sticky tape”
sticky back plastic was exactly that, self adhesive vinyl that you get on a roll