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?🤔

Are you sure?

I got to adulthood before I found out that currants were just a different type of grape, not dried blackcurrants 😯

sultanas = white grapes
raisins = red grapes
currants = much drier and smaller grape variety

Tenter or tenterer was a common occupation years ago, I come across it often when transcribing old parish records for a website.

1. Tenterer - Someone who, after cloth was dyed, stretched it on a frame, called a "Tent" for drying . This frame was fitted with hooks known as "Tenterhooks" - about which we all know! Photo (1950) 2) The term was also used for a person who looked after or watched something. .i.e. Tip tenter - person inspecting finished shuttle tips after manufacture. (Tenter - from Tender, to tend) More Info.

Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin owned the same tortoise. She was called Harriet.

I never knew where the word tenter came from before. It all joins up!

Maps cause all kinds of misconceptions, as a child I always thought that the UK looked like a bus driver, Scotland the head, Cornwall the legs, Wales the arms, Ireland the big steering wheel etc!

Edinburgh is west of Bristol surprises a lot of people, the M62 doesn't run east/west, it's more ene/wsw .

Orchids and pineapples.

Cant get over these😮

Youn can do the months on your knuckles.
Clench your fists and put them together, start from the left, first knuckle is January, first dip is February etc. The knuckles all have 31 days and the dips, excluding the first one, Feb, have 30 days! In the middle are two knuckles, July and August, 31 days each.

McDonald's do syrup pancakes for breakfast. Never knew. I'm pregnant and cried I was so happy. Husband looked at me like I was nuts.

This is the truth about Iggle Piggle
I can't contemplate any of the other truly awful theories, hands over ears lalalalalal…

The bit about north and south is true, but not east and west. If you are going west and keep going in a straight line you just keep going west, forever. You will never be going east (there are no east or west poles).

If you go south however you will end up at the south pole so if you keep on going in a straight line from there you will be going north.

Aw, I've just googled her. 176 years old when she died.

I can't find the original post but the one about not realising the moment when you last picked up your child hit me the other day. DS, nearly 13, sat on my lap, and I said to him "oof, you are heavy". I realised then that I have not picked him up for many months and would struggle to do so (he weighs 45kg). It's not far off me being completely unable to do so. That made me feel sad (and made me remember how I carried a tiny 4lb baby around in a sling and would never let him be not attached to me).

That our children (and yours too probably) are likely to see at least FOUR reining monarchs in their single life time! My dd pointed that out to me

Something I only found only relatively recently (very late in life) is that the little arrow on the petrol pump light that lights up when you are low on fuel is pointing to which side of the car your tank is. If I had known this years earlier it would have saved me so much hassle when driving rental cars!

I think the fact it has brown signposts with "Secret Bunker" written on is a bit of a give away. We've driven past ours and DH pointed it out...even though there's a big sign. 🤦‍♀️
Hack Green

A reindeer isn’t just a mythical deer!

It wasn’t until I seen one up close and realised the antlers weren’t actually a headband and they weren’t just made up for Christmas

think horse = unicorn / deer = reindeer

The same is true for testicles. My dp had to have one removed, and now has the avealrage number of testicles for a human being. (ie men usually have 2, women 0, average is 1.)

Oldraver

Have you seen The West Wing?
CJ You wanna change the map?

Once more with feeling:

SELLOTAPE is the Brand Name of a variety of pressure sensitive tape. ( see also Scotch Tape) The name is also a generic trademark ( see Hoover, Jeep, Plasticine et al.)

STICKY TAPE is a generic term for any sort of pressure sensitive tape.

STICKY BACK PLASTIC is a large type of plastic/vinyl film or sheeting. Used extensively in the 70s/80s/90s for the covering of rough books for school work

I have been experimenting with melting Cadbury Dairy Milk Little Bars and Flakes in the microwave. And then comparing ingredients. It's true Flake doesn't melt, but at 90 seconds, it starts going crispy and taste a bit burnt.

Greenland is especially massively inflated in relative size on a traditional Mercator map (it is shown to be the same size as the whole of South America whereas in fact it is about one eighth of the size).

This is an interesting map
www.natureindex.com/news-blog/data-visualisation-animated-map-mercater-projection-true-size-countries

That all packets of crisps expire on a Saturday