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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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    Bee / she/her
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How dare you reveal his secret identity? Just between the two of us, my dad is his associate!

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

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

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    Bee / she/her
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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.

    Nicki
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was like 10 years I wanted to marry someone from a really obscure place (to the average American), like Latvia, so that they could teach our kids and me a non-common language for the US and it would be like we had our own secret codes. 🤣🤣🤣

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

    i grew up believing all people learned at least 2 other languages just to function in this world. how ignorant i was :D

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

    That would be so handy, though. But school alone is not enough. You really need to be immersed into a multilingual environment. I grew up like that, so I'm fluent in 4 languages, but I had the pleasure of meeting various people from all over the worlds, and, hearing their stories really opened my eyes about the various situations and points of views.

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

    I still believe that the Danes only speak Danish when they know someone is watching. Their English is so good that they simply can't not be using it all the time!

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

    Those poor bastards are just too small of a country to have a big movie industry in Danish and watch too much Hollywood stuff in the original.

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

    I thought that English was the proper, default language. That the English word for something (tree, for instance), was the proper word for it and that the word in other languages wasn't correct. I was (and am) a strange child.

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

    I'm afraid there are some adults who think that.

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

    I thought people translated stuff from English into another language before they said it, and back to English after they heard it. Never occurred to me that people actually thought in Spanish, French, Mandarin… etc.

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

    I felt really sad for all those people not speaking Dutch.. after all.. who would understand them.. I even cried about it.. lol

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

    well would have been very nice

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

    I thought there were only two languages: Dutch and English (aka just talk gibberish)

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

    I used to think 1. Languages were like codes. A four letter word would have four letters in every language, and if you crack the code, you can read that language. 2. Even if you weren't speaking english, you heard it. For example, a french person could say "bonjour" and the french person they were talking to would hear "hello".

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

    That is incredibly adorable.

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

    I went to school at times we had to learn Russian. Which I strictly refused to learn. These days I could kick my younger me in the butt for that. At least I can read the alphabet and many words are similar in polish

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

    My kids learned to count to 10 in Spanish, German, Mandarin, and our native English. My son is still learning and is not aborbing it too easily so when I asked he count in German, he whined no. After asking if it was too hard -yes- and starting him off and he refused, I said "Ok, mater, let's do English" and he cried out another no/whine. I didn't think about him not knowing there is a name to our language.

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

    The only thing close to learning another language for me is writing a whole Christmas letter in spanish for school. I was 5, all we were tought was colors and numbers. All I know is english and some Korean words and phrases

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

    Not a bad idea, would make far more sense than twinning towns

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

    Me too like oh we get English, they get Slovenian (which is a bi**h to learn if you're not a child)

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

    I wished this was true.

    Kanga9ine
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We just yell louder and speak slower in English whenever we go to another country. And repeat same thing till somebody gets it.

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

    Such a good idea though

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

    I was born in a bilingual country and I thought that everywhere in the world people spoke two languages. I didn't wondered if one could be enough or why two and not three, for example.

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

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

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

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

    Its sort of true just most dont get fertilised

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

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

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

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

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

    It bothers me when parents give a child a name that sounds cute for infants and children but immature for adults. I sometimes suggest, "Put 'President' at the beginning of the name. How how appropriate does that combination sound?"

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

    For me, I thought there was a black and white period, a low-resolution period, and a normal one.

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

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

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

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

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

    I wish I had subtitles in *my* head. Life would be easier.

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

    That’s one way to keep the ruffles to yourself

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

    I used to think when there was a young version of a person on a program or movie then it was actually a video of the actor when they were a kid

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

    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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