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?🤔

Oh my god, that is like a horror film!

I dare not tell DD 13. I think she will 😢

What a disturbing thread😳- Iggle Piggle, the pineapples and what’s all that about limbs?

I know! I'm going to have weird disturbing dreams tonight 😀

That the ‘honeycomb’ in a crunchie is not made by bees 🤣🤣🤣

Something I read on here that was a proper deep thought moment...

Your brain knows where every organ and cell is in your body and if there is anything wrong with any of them, but it cant tell you...

I thought it was sellotape too. I found Blue Peter extremely boring so clearly wasn’t paying attention.

Oh yes, I remember yearning for some sticky backed plastic…

I’m too embarrassed to admit how old I was when I finally clocked that dying of old age wasn’t at all the thing I thought it was. I honestly though people could live perfectly healthy lives until they were say, 90, and then stop living simply because they were old. It had never occurred to me that dying of old age really means bits of you gradually wearing out.

The limbs thing is obvious, it's just that people very rarely consider it. Most people have 4 limbs (2 arms & 2 legs), a significant minority of people have lost one or more limbs, or been born without. Hardly anyone has more than 4 (very rare birth defect). Therefore the mean number of limbs per person is less than 4, but most people have 4. So most people have an above average amount.

Whaaaat? Where did you hear this??

I think on Blue Peter they used double sided sticky tape 'for speed', instead of glue. Sticky backed plastic was mythical stuff for me, along with 'answers on a postcard', which I thought you could only buy at the seaside. I didn't live near the sea.
For me, realising that the sky carried on up for infinity. Also how heavy clouds would be.

Thanks for explaining!

(still 😳about I.P though!)

what????

Mind was blown when I realised that the word wasn't tenderhooks but was tenterhooks.
In my mind a person was said to be on tender hooks as in ' tender ' and therefore fragile . It made sense to me .

It's not that simple. Unfortunately cancers kill the nerve endings as they grow so your body doesn't notice, and often is just a malfunction of the normal systems of growth, so your body just thinks that it's ok.' Our bodies often do tell us that something is wrong, we ignore it a lot of the time.

On the topic of Bluey, I found out last week that Bluey is a girl, not a boy as I've assumed all this time!

Sally Webster from Corrie, her RL daughter is the Duchess Daphne Bridgerton.

Bluey is a girl?
Mind. Blown.

That the sun doesn't actually move further away from the earth in winter and closer to it in summer - it's all to do with the way the earth is tilted on its axis. I still can't quite believe I got to my forties without knowing this.

Also that gravity isn't a magnetic force that is exerted by the middle of the Earth and pulls everything down.

It's no wonder that I failed physics at school.

Always thought it was Rock, Paper, Scissors... Shoes! Wondered why I always lost

That the TRex lived closer in time to the human race than it did to the Stegosaurus.

That Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landings, than to the building of the great Pyramid at Giza.

Has anyone said pineapples yet? Every time this thread comes up someone mentions pineapples.

Now it amazes me you didn’t know that! She’s her absolute double!

That is sad about Igglepiggle.

Horrible about Oysters (I've never eaten one).

That your brain shrinks when you sleep over night and you have a brain wash with fluid that flushes out toxics 🤯

Oh poor IgglePiggle 😢