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Childhood could be seen as one of the most adorable periods of a person’s life. The time when children start to ask and learn various things about the world is very important. And usually, it brings a lot of fun to adults who try to explain and share their knowledge as best as possible. I guess we all remember times when we struggled to understand certain matters. Having this in mind, Twitter user @ExileGrimm asked people what was the dumbest belief they had when they were kids. The tweet got more than 93k likes and almost 7k retweets. 

Image credits: fklv (Obsolete hipster)

The Twitter user started the thread by sharing her own belief that birds grew from bird seeds and that she even managed to prove this to be right. In the comments, people also shared their own beliefs that they soon understood to be nonsense. Even though these thoughts were false assumptions, now they make thousands of people laugh and think of their own funny childhood stories.

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    Mmmm. I love frozen peas. Or peas straight from the pod. Yum yum.

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought people who spoke English were just faking it and everyone's native language was Ukrainian.

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    glowworm2
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s the cutest thing I’ve ever heard.

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    Somebody didn't do enough maze solving as a child. ;-)

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    My father actually told me what Roxanne was actually about when I was young, but I didn't know what a prostitute was at the time.

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    Toujin C'Thlu
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This seems like a pretty common belief amongst kids

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    Johnny Rodriguez
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Understandable. 1 is the smallest-100 is the largest. It's a unit of measurement that children can relate to..

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    Zephyr Anthem
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Med School at least XDDDDD

    Guido Pisano
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I live in italy and it's exactly the same...

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    Sage Gusano
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you try to read my handwriting, you'll be a believer again!

    Improperplays
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mine aswell, i cant write well for the life of me!

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    The Redhead
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In 4th grade ( around '90/'91) we were in the computer lab and our teacher had her screen on the projector so we could see what she was doing. First she said put in your password well all I saw was the asterisk and I thought that's dumb now we all know her password. Then she hit enter and said "now we're connected to the computer at the local library; I thought who cares it's not doing anything.

    Stephanie IV
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believed handwriting was a matter of voluntarily infusing completely arbitrary squiggles with meaning. Like magic. That’s it. I thought being able to write was magic.

    Chloe *Leah* Pheonix
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Be a doctor and you'll finally get that lesson

    Robert Robi Z
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, when I was a small child before I learned how to write, I pretended to write by just scribbling such lines on paper. The interesting thing, I knew perfectly well what I 'wrote' and could 'read' it, word after word, and repeat it as many times you want

    Lindsey Judd-Bruder
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's what I used to think cursive was. Just a bunch of connected loops, lol.

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wrote like as a little kid and thought I was an author of great stories! I would even read them to people.

    Valisbourne Spiritforge
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess this one is just going right over my head.

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    un..you mean CURSIVE WRITING..which they teach us in grade school?

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    Well there is definitely some miserable git that turns them all to red when he sees me coming.

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    I thought that long haired dogs and cats were girls and short haired ones were boys.

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    I am italian but when I speak/write in english I think in english I do not translate from italian...

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    I always thought when a woman threw up she was pregnant immediately after. This was thought when i was 6 or 7. Every time i threw up after that i sobbed. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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    When I heard the term "Great depression" the first time I thought it was because evrybody was really unhappy with how things were going. They never explained it here in the UK fully in history lessons. They just said "and at that time America was going through the great depression."

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    Like when Elmer Fudd stuck the rifle barrel into the hole and it curled up out of the hole behind him!

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