Twitter User Asked, “What Is The Dumbest Thing You Believed As A Child?” And 34 Folks Delivered

My goldfish "lived" for 9 years, I won him at a local fair and he would stay at my grandma's house if we went on holiday. He sometimes looked different after a holiday at Grandma's house 🤣

Don't know about the carpet but the dirt is for sure growing and i swear I'm not feeding it!!!!!

This is so innocent.

Omg I thought this too!

Works every time.

Universities used to create scientists! Now they create unemployed!

I believed that too!

The disappointment must have been huge when you found out

What are those?

And if you have 50 pounds of chocolate and two gigantic graham crackers, you will have one hell of a smore.

Don’t they grow on trees? 😲

I told my kids that they were farmers eggs, just waiting to be hatched.....That´s how farmers are born! ;)

yeah what are those

Cheese?

When I was a kid I thought that they were dinosaur eggs. Or at least I kind of wish it was. Me & my friend cared and look after the ones her mother had on their farm :) we even give "the eggs" different names and talked to them. And if one was gone we just thought it had hatched and the Dino had been shipped to a Dino park. Honestly I still wanna believe it is that way :)

Haha I convinced my little sister of that until she was 7😂

That's adorable

These were all over Iceland when I drove the entire island in August. Most were white but there were also black ones that looked like giant licorice drops.

You mean they're not???

That's where they come from.

Myself and my fiancé have convinced our 6 year old this. Also they have black ones and they get dyed white 😅

And Cheerios are donut seeds.

Those are for some big mugs of hot chocolate

In the UK that would be silage for cattle feed. You wouldn't wrap hay or straw otherwise because it needs to stay dry.

black or green plastic's the norm in the Uk!

You mean they aren't?

I used to believe the more numbers there were, the faster it went. I used this method at a day home to stop arguments about toys with my fellow children. It would be like "Can I play with the ______________?" "Sure, just give me 6 trillion hours." And then after one second we would give it to eachother.

I’m really happy to see so many people besides me thought quicksand would be a huge issue at some point in life. Seems like every tv show had some quicksand emergency.

Same, I thought if you had good scuba gear you could swim under the smaller ones. I didn’t get why submarines didn’t just go under the continents?

i definitely like the idea of applying to have a kid.

Naaah… they’re just perverts flashing everyone.

My mom’s dad said that eating bread crusts would give her curly hair.

Dead rainbows for us we were morbid kids

This was one that a lot of people genuinely believed. The story goes (not sure if true or apocryphal) that it was a rumour invented during WWII after the invention of radar. Not wanting the enemy to know why our pilots could suddenly 'see' so well in the dark, someone came up with the idea that they eat enormous amounts of carrots and it improves their night vision. As radar was a war secret at the time, the British population were fed the same line, and the story stuck.

Years later still stuck in traffic and hoping that was true

Then The Wizard of Oz shows the exact moment it started being in color, haha.

There's plenty of adults who still think that everyone can read their mind! I can only assume that's why they never use their turn signals.

I thought so too, except it was some years before Toy Story was released :)

in lungs, maybe. 2010, pea plant in lungs https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-10945050 ; (disputed) man named Sidorkin had 2 inch long fir tree in his lung. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/photos/photos-medical-marvels-2024849/image-7351759

That would be a hell of a nickname!