This isn't actually one of mine, but I thought it was great. When my mother was a girl, she had (and still does) the ability to shoot a tiny stream of spit between her teeth. Apparently my grandfather was not amused since he told her that the "acid" in her saliva would melt holes in the upholstry of their car.

Grungie

If you hung upsides down, your liver would turn over.

Anon

When I was little i used to think that the whole human body had little people in it, doing all the work, like really small people. That used to run 'round giving oxygen to the people in the muscles and the brain people telling the other people in various body parts what to do. Aswell as people in the stomach ripping everything up and dividing the good stuff to the bad stuff, wasn't until i learnt about the proper functions, i sat there thinking "but what about the little people?"

Asatica

I used to think that the noises my stomach were from little people in my stomach talking to eachother.

Jill

when i was younger about 5 yrs old i used to think that there was little people inside your body who controlled you! a bit weird do u think?

Anon

When I was 5 or so, my much-older brother convinced me that if you ate the core of an apple and swallowed the pips, a tree would grow in your belly and grow out of your belly-button.
Needless to say I was always sure to throw the pips away.

TC

I was told when I was 6 that people don't grow BRAIN before 12 years old ! I believed it untill I was 10 ! :)

Jón Hjörtur Iceland

When I saw a scuba diver on tv I started to believe that our lungs were some kind of tanks filled with a certain amount of oxigen. Very ttime you breath, you use it. Eventually, when all is used, you die!

After I figured this out, I started breathing very "economicly" to live longer, resulting in very unpleasant fealing in my body;)

Marco

I had a very happy childhood, but believed that if I cried in bed on a Saturday night, it would be bad luck for the coming week.

Anon

In order to get me and my older brother to "cover our mouths when we sneezed," our mother told us that "the germs from a sneeze travel all over the world within one second." My brother and I spent the next several days faking sneezes, after which we would hollar out "ONE!" Finally, we were told to knock it off!

Louanne

I once over-heard a conversation between classmates. The sentence was:
"My mom hates bending over."

I took it more as: "My mom never bends over or can't bend over." For years I tried to figure out how his mom would do household chores such as opening the oven to take something out without bending.

It wasn't until as an adult that I thought of the conversation and realized what was really said,
"She hates bending, that doesn't mean she doesn't do it."

The realization hit me when I reallized as an adult that I really can't stand bending over either. This evident by the complaints from my wife as to the length of my toe nails.

Keith

My younger cousin (shes 6) thinks that throwing up is pooping and pooping is throwing up. She's not the brightest crayon in the box.

Anon

up until i think 6th grade, i used to think that every time a person spit, they lost a bunch of tastebuds, and so that is why grown men (who in my small town, i often saw spitting) always ate so much... because they had tasting troubles!

Jilly

when i was in year 6 (i'm british) my teacher told me that someone once thought if you get tired, your heart stops pumping.

Martin

at about 4 i thought my stomach was the large region under my chest, like many kids. However i thought it was so big because it had a ferris wheel in it, with half of egg shells for each food, and when, say broccoli came down my throat, i thought a cup,labeled too, would go up, catch it, then go deposit it at the hole at the bottom, that looked very much like the garbage disposer hole in the sink.

Steph Dudrak(13)

i used to think that if you burped in a bottle, then opened it, you would hear the burp! i tried until i was like 7 years old, when my cousin (the one who convinced me that i could do it)told me he made it up! i was very mad!!!

foxeecheer13

When I was growing up in the Philippines, my brother and sisters would tell me that if I get cut, that rice and carabao would come out. I thought to myself, "Yeah right! Carabao! PLEASE! But what am I gonna do when rice comes out?"

Joe

my brother used to believe he could drown off his spit. when he got too much saliva in his mouth, he would spit down his shirt to avoid certain death....... needless to say, i never borrowed my brother's shirts.

me

This year in school, we were in Applied Biology, im in 10th grade and this freshmen girl is in there (quite the blonde) and and we were talking about sweating and she just blurted out " dont you pee when you sweat??"

everyone laughed at her forever after that.

Katy

i used to think my sister was cold blooded, because she used to say she took cold showers.

anastacia beeverhousen