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?🤔

I never knew this for years either (I never made any Blue Peter items)

A Penguin bar is just a bourbon biscuit covered in chocolate.

How does that work?!

That the last US Civil War (1861-1865) widow died in 2020 - 135 years after the war finished!

Yes, you use it to cover tiny weeny books ! 🤣

Okay. I just looked it up.

John Tyler (b.1790) had Lyon (b.1853) and Lyon had Harrison (b.1928).

Both births were to their second wives who were significantly younger than them.

Argh - typo. I meant the earth doesn’t move further away from the sun, it’s just its tilt etc. I do know the planets go round the sun thankfully.

Sellotape is made from cellulose derived from wood pulp and is bio degradable.

Beef gravy granules are vegan.

Sticky-backed plastic was a product called Fablon. It came in sheets and various jolly patterns. My mother covered a tatty top of a picnic table with it and it lasted years. 'Blue Peter' called Sellotape sticky tape.

If anyone was wondering:a 17 year girl named Helen married a 93 year old civil war veteran in 1936 so she would receive his army pension following his death.He died 3 years later.She never got remarried and the marriage was kept a secret;she even continued living with her parents as a supposed spinster.Thé secret marriage was revealed 3 years before she died at 101.

Given how slow they move, it's probably a good job they can hold their breath for such a while, must take an hour to get through one stroke lol

Unless they are like Michael Phelps in the water, now that would be a site to behold 😂

That 'spike' in gremlins is actually called 'stripe' took me til I was 45.5 to realise.

Wait till you see the population of Indonesia. Another half an hour lost of my life to worldometers

Every time, right?

But yes, a couple of people’s minds have already been blown by the pineapple fact on page 1 already.

Baby vests will be along soon.

That all the water you ever drink was once upon a time, dinosaur wee!

Oh I need to know about baby vests right now please!

That you don’t rinse after brushing you’re teeth.

I found out today from my hgv driver friend that crushed marble powder is used in the coating of chewing gum. He found out during his work when collecting a load at the quarry. I will never feel the same way about gum again.

That the number of people older than you only gets smaller.

Bluey is a girl?!!

How do people not know this 😂 their parents often refer to their children as 'girls'!

That there is no such fish as a scampi

GurtBusty
Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded, and the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand
Along similar lines, the water we have today is the same water that’s been there since then.

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These ones make my mind blown and also happy in equal measure 😊

Me too! I've been calling the little shit by the wrong name most of my life.