45 Hilariously Painful “I Used To Think” Moments People Shared For Jimmy Fallon’s Challenge

I thought you were arrested. At night. With a pillowcase over your head. And taken to a secret location.. And have stories written about you that would make everyone relieved you had disappeared.

Oh my gosh… I never… but he… he DID go grocery shopping. I can’t believe I learned this today… *feels shame*

Cartoons did us dirty on this one my brother

That sounds cute :)

aww, this is the sweetest thing I ever heard, giving you a bit of magic~ yet a slightly evil prank with mom to share with when you are older! "remember how you used to think they grew hahaha!"

It shouldn't really make a difference, they should all want the best for our country, but when half the country is stupid enough to vote for a sleazy reality tv host with zero political experience who brags about sexually assaulting women, it's time to adjust that expectation.

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I used to make sure each toy was tucked into a little bed. Yes it did take me a long time to go to sleep at night.

Aww, poor dear. If only you’d had the courage to tell your adult relatives at the time; as (unless your fam love pranks) they surely would’ve put your mind to rest. 🥺

Ah yes, this egg carton contains eggs, very good, I shall purchase them.

There's still time.

That would be sweet.

This is one we can all relate to.

I would not, in any capacity, wish for a doll, any doll, to mysteriously appear under my bed.

I think I would die if this was real. IMAGINE IF YOU WERE OUTSIDE IF A @&#$% WORM FELL ON YOUR HEAD

In that case, they were well cast movies, if you believed they were the same person. :D

Aww!! ❤️💛💚

And then I went on to do PhD and found it was true.

Pictured here is Queen Liliuokalani, the last monarch of Hawai’i.

God pls send me a ponny ....(nothing happend)....Oh man!!

We all thought so :)

I learned this as a teen when my best friend died. My group of friends were so kind to each other, stopped gossiping, really put effort into letting each other know we cared. That lasted a few months and it slowly dissolved back to how it was before. I slowly pulled away from all my friends then picked a college none of them were going to. My friend dying did change me and it wasn’t a temporary thing. I picked different friends at college.

Imagine Paul Rudd enter a drag race

Artists used to have real work ethics.

I used to tell my ex that the only "common cents" she has was the family change dish.... She never got it lol

It took me a second but its so funny!

Here’s something for our German speaking pandas: I lived in Germany for a few years as a child and teenager. One day, in primary school, the teacher prepared us for our first trip to the library. She explained that “die Bibliote Karin” will show us around. 7 year old me deducted from this that clearly “Bibliote” meant librarian and that her name was Karin.

Omg. We rock because I thought that also.

i was told i would get hairy palms

Good thing you have a lot of breaks on American television or the house would have been in shambles. ✌️

How cool would that be, if it were true!

I used to play with my toys equally because I didn’t want one to feel bad that I didn’t like it as much. But then I’d secretly hold the paw to my favorite stuffy (which was an armadillo btw) so he knew I really liked him best.

You weren't alone.

I bless the rains down in Africa. Gonna take some time to do the things we never had (ooh, ooh)

Sadd that it doesn't work like that. There would be lesser waste on earth.

I thought I was the only one that thought this!!!

Great PSA

This is a family joke. All the photos of when my parents were young are in black and white. So if something happened a long time ago, we say "back when the world was in black and white". There doesn't seem to be much evidence that things were in colour as they have very few possessions from back then. The 60s and 70s were definitely in colour as we have photos to prove it, plus I remember the (hideous) orange carpet that they had in the kitchen!

Better than my old school photos, always looked creepy

Mythbusters declared it pausible. It confirmed you could get electrocuted if you answer a landline during an electric storm.

As a kid, I used to think I was born before my parents were married because they were married in June and I was born in May (of the following year). It was so confusing...

Have you seen them? It's still hard for me to believe that they are real

Well, I'd much rather come home to a lama than come home to a state.

LOL! Why was Madge having women soak their fingers in dish soap? What purpose did it serve?

Not wrong, actually even impressive.. - technically the car is putting equally much energy into spinning the earth as into propelling the car. The earth just happens to have a marginally bit higher inertia. Actio-Reactio

Imagine what we would say to each other if this was true! 😳

Funnily enough my parents sold the house to the people they are renting from

I thought that any mother bird didn’t have legs so that she wouldn’t step on her eggs or chicks when she sat on the nest.

How? How bruh howwww?

Calvin and Hobbes

World famine could have been solved long ago if we had known that.

and that’s how Catdog was made!

Now I can unsee it.

I've never seen this sign. Does it say that or something similar?

My grandmother refused to warm up the car because the electricity bill would get to high.

lol

Tbh I like your lyric better!

And they sky was always orange

Aw sorry

most people would make that mistake, especially outside usa. you're forgiven.

Raisins in pancakes would make me gag

....six years???

Left arm in UK, but same 😀

I still think this from time to time.

Its still seriously considered a real thing. Just yesterday my aunt was telling my 5 year old nephew this and I rolled my eyes so hard they could have stuck