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!

When we were little (about 4) my twin brother and I walked behind a heavily pregnant lady taunting her with "we know what you did".

my mom told me that and i believe it until i read a book that said otherwise

Or if you bit and swallowed your nails they would stick in your liver

No, that is non-sense! Everybody knows swallowed chewing gum wraps round you heart.

I remember someone telling me that all my guts would get stuck together and then I’ll die

Or it would get stuck in your appendix. :-)

Ikr? It's clearly 14 years.

That seems like an oddly specific length of time

Or it stuck to your heart

Wasn't that a general myth that was around for years? Don't know how it started

I still believe in that.

The disappointment must have been huge when you found out

What are those?

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!

Romper Room. That lady NEVER saw me or called my name.

They don't?!?

Not deaf, just a little hard of hearing.

I don't know why but baby telephones poles sound so cute

Truman?

But the true is if you suck your thumb for too long, your upper and lower front teeth will deformate and then you'll have a deformated jaw.

First: storks then: Airplanes next step: drones

Over the left shoulder, using the right hand.

It's so weird that in the UK toad in the hole is a pastry with sausages, but in Australia it is bread with a hole cut in the middle and an egg cracked into the hole and fried

In my country, all senior women are considered to be witches who can hex you.

They don’t