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?🤔

Love the facts about average hearts and limbs!

If we're going to include unborn babies, we could also say that most people on the earth are walking around with less than the average number of heads. 🤪

That when a woman is pregame with a female foetus, she is already carrying half the genetic material of any future grandchildren of hers. As a female baby has all of their eggs already

I heard this one recently ... it's very, very cool!

That money is worthless.

As a society we have a collective belief that this bit of metal or paper and now, this digital record, has this value.

To crash the economy all we would have to do is stop believing…

Are you sure about this? I thought he slept in his boat overnight and then joined his friends in the garden in the day, (although why it’s then called the night garden I don’t know).

That when Americans talked about "putting gas in their vehicles" or going to the "gas station" it was gasoline and not actual gas.

Yes I thought American cars were fuelled by gas....

🤦🏼‍♀️

Liverpool is further east than Edinburgh.

Wow you'd keep bees both busy and pissed off you think their skills of making honeycomb a decent shake is so shit 😆

I assume the baby vests one is that they have an envelope neck so they can be pulled down over the baby rather than needing to go over the heat head. Though, I did think that was common knowledge...

The Sun very definitely moves. It is orbiting the centre of the galaxy.

Love this one

@CaveMum

no way ! I had to do an image search to check 🙃🤦🏽‍♀️

I have been doing this for a while😇 but looking at the people in the queues at the post office does no one else know🧐 that for returns you turn the original packaging inside out and peel the (usually) green ribbon to reseal?

This is going to make me sound really stupid....I was in Shetland a few years ago and we saw loads of Shetland ponies. I said to DP "oh are Shetland ponies actually from Shetland then?"
It had never occurred to me! 🤦‍♀️

The SOS call Mayday is French m’aidez - help
me. Obvious when you know but had no idea until recently.

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found this out later in life!

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/deborah-hitchins/baby-vests-did-you-know-this_b_9785056.html

If a woman only has one fallopian tube, when the ovary on the side that has no tube releases an egg, the one remaining tube will move over to catch it.

I found this out on the brilliant podcast 28ish Days Later. The female reproductive system is amazing.

Ohhhh yes I knew this! Thank u

My much loved and missed late DP and his late wife used to be Foster carers.. I was staggered at his encyclopedic knowledge of ITNG... My ds was too old to watch it. I used to tease DP that he could in Mastermind with ITNG as his subject!! 🤣 🤣

@ChiefPearlClutcher My comment was in reply to your post which I thought I had tagged but hadnt! 🙄

On the same theme - 'petty cash' is derived from the French word 'petit' (small).

All the the answers to the 9X table add up to 9.

2X9 = 18 1+8= 9
3X9 =27 2+7 =9
4X9 =36 3+6=9

And so on...

I'm 50 and had always thought I was reasonably smart (I am an English teacher).🙈

If you were to remove all of the empty space contained in every atom in every person on planet earth and compress us all together, then the overall volume of our particles would be smaller than a sugar cube 🤯

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

🤯🤯🤯🤯 how have I got to 40 without realising this?!