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

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

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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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    HoneyBun Arts
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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. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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

    Thank God I was not the only one 😁... And I had motion sickness so it was kinda frequent

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    M O'Connell
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There have been numerous cases of parents teaching their children this. The result is they don't kiss their peers, they f**k them... pregnancy. Major parenting backfire.

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

    A friend of mine told me that to get pregnant we had to drink champagne in a bathtube. I could understand some soap operas then.

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

    So that's why you can't get pregnant in a hot tub! /s lol

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

    This is exactly what i thought and they would have a full make out session and there's a baby formed in the women's tummy (if it was only that easy)

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

    I thought the exact same thing. And at my aunt's wedding, when I was 4, I clearly remember whispering to my grandmother that I wasn't kissing my husband at my wedding because I didn't want a baby. I'm 50 and still don't have kids. Best decision ever.

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

    I just thought that they get married and then the woman gets pregnant at some random time. Then I found an (age- appropriate) encyclopedia.

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

    There are so many misconceptions (oops - no pun intended) on this theme. I thought you had to be married in order to get pregnant; those women who didn't were just unlucky.

    I' Gomez & Morticia's kid
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    After my first kiss for several years, I thought I was pregnant:/

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    This happens in anime sometimes I think.

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    I used to think that holding hands did the trick...

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    Jesus I would have so many children that is a terrifying thought

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    Living on a farm in my early years took the mystery out of where babies come from. The animals were great teachers.

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    i thought it was like, not seggs per se but like 🍆 just like touches 🐱 and boom baby so i thought u would get preggo in the shower a lot just by accidental touching ig lol

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    Hollysmom
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    As a young girl my grandmother thought this too. After she was kissed she was afraid to go to school. Her mother never corrected her, just told her to go to school. Early 1900's

    Cain Hargreaves
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    I thought this too--that it was the actual marriage ceremony that resulted in pregnancy. I knew that childbirth was painful, somehow, and I didn't want to go through that, so I swore at age 7 to never get married. I kind of regret that now.

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    Me too! I learned from ms. frizzle that babies have to be fertilized so i assumed that was how.

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    Not exactly, but a nice foreplay to the actual thing

    yellowphantom
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    I thought that getting married created some altered state so that if spouses slept in the same bed, it would create a baby. Literally no clue about single parenthood or sex. Embarrassingly old when I unlearned this.

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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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