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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. 

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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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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Greggy? We put tje at the end of a name. Wanted to call my son Ray, but then it would be first Raytje and reetje sounds the same and is a little ass, so he's called Roy.

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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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Soni Borah
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated 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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2 years ago DotsCreated 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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2 years ago DotsCreated 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)

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2 years ago DotsCreated 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.

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Carmen Sandiego
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2 years ago DotsCreated 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated 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.

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emily arslain
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

hahaha I used to think that women chose when to have babies not understanding anything about how reproduction worked. I just assumed that after people got married they just decided one day to have kids and then they would. it wasn't until Rachel got pregnant on friends that I started to rethink this theory because she wasn't married at the time.. I also thought that mom's would feed their babies by sticking food into their belly button and then would eventually "poop" their babies out in the toilet. lmao (this is a repost, I felt it fit more appropriately here)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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Charley
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s how it worked in the original Sims before they introduced the heart-shaped vibrating bed.

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Hollysmom
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Cain Hargreaves
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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yellowphantom
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to think pregnancy happened when a woman's body magically produced sperm and it went to the egg. Like, I knew the scientific process of how babies were made/born, but I didn't know how the whole thing started. The books I read always skirted around the actual "process".

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought that too, some outlandish theory about saliva mixing except it doesn't work if you have the same genes (family members, of course child me didn't know about incest). Not that far off really.

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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s one way to keep the ruffles to yourself

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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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