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?🤔

@Puffalicious also, the numbers up to 5 are reversed after 5.

09, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90

Wowsers!

Be careful around your DD, right enough, BoredZelda 😃

If you press the button that says sky On your sky remote, it goes straight to recordings.

I live near an owl sanctuary, I absolutely love watching the owls walk around, it's a really comical sight.

My contribution, possibly learnt on here at some point - Madagascar has a population of approx 29 million people. 2 in every 327 people on the planet is Madagascan. 🦁

Oops typo- 1 in 327

Or a tragedy.

(oh the days of bedtime hour on Cbeebies were lovely)

This -

“Before we were conceived, we existed in part as an egg in our mother’s ovary.
All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother.
This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother.
Each of us spent five months in our grandmother’s womb and she in turn formed within the womb of her grandmother.

We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother’s blood before she herself is born.
And this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.”

When the drummers were women by Layne Redmond.

You can also do the 9 x table on your fingers.

Hold out your hands palms up. Fold down the number 1 finger which is your left thumb. How many fingers to the right = 9. Ie 1 x 9. = 9

Then start again. Hold down just the second finger. You have 2 finger on the left and 8 on the right as in one and 8; 18. So 2 x 9 = 18.

Keep going with the other fingers.

Hard to read but just do it with your hands and it works.

Sticky backed plastic was used interchangeably on Blue Peter for both sellotape and Fablon so everyone is correct here.

I was scrolling through the thread, smugly saying to myself "I've always known that" about everything - and then I came across this nugget of information. Mind blown! How astonishing that there is someone alive today whose father was born 169 years ago and whose grandfather was born 222 years ago!
I'm still processing that information in my head!

Safe to say, I will be sleeping with the light on tonight, after seeing those post boxes 😬

Is funny seeing the comments about Iggle Piggle. I read a theory that him floating away in the boat is him actually dying, and that what happens in the lead up to that is a dying hallucination.

The tune to the alphabet song, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, are the all the same.

Nah it was big colourful sheets of plastic!

Pineapples don’t grow on the ground, wtf 😳

That I cam scroll through photos to select to delete, instead of tapping each photo 😫

I have two.

1. If you feel the gap between your thumb and index finger on your dominant hand really carefully, you’ll feel a tiny finger embedded under the skin. Millions of years ago, humans had six fingers and this is an evolutionary throw back. It even has a teeny tiny nail.

2. Lots of people believe what they read on the internet and you’ve been feeling your hand looking for an imaginary finger.
   Ha ha.
   Losers.

@GrowThroughWhatYouGoThrough A kidney transplant is FAR more complicated than a simple plumbing job, hence so many fail

So is Bingo, but maybe you already knew that.

That baby wipes expire

@BreadAndWater compared to other organ transplants it is (consultants words). It's the maintaining the function after the op which causes the problems

@GrowThroughWhatYouGoThrough

The complex tests to go through to be matched with a viable kidney and everything that involves and with dialysis and everything after
Not a simple plumbing job
Bit as this is a ‘fun’ thread
I will leave it there!

Sultanas = a bit dry
Raisins = medium dry
currants = very dry

I'm fully aware of the ins and out of it due to immediate family members having had kidney transplants. I seem to have touched a nerve and will apologise for anything you may have found offensive in my post

What always blows my mind is the number of people on these threads who have astonishing levels of ignorance and are proud to admit it.

That diplodocus dinosaur is pronounced diplo Dock us