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ten of them, plucked out of tens of thousands

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I thought that a fruit machine (gambling machine) was where you actually bought fruit and the money you won was the change.

I used to believe that the kids poem "finders keepers, losers weepers" really said "finders keepers, losers sweepers." I figured that Cinderella had a hard life, and she did a lot of sweeping!

I used to believe…

my mom always said if you fell asleep with gum in your mouth it would end up in your hair!
I thought you would swallow it during the night & it would seep out into your hair thru your scalp.

I used to believe that short haired cats were long haired cats who'd just had haircuts. I believed this until I was 14, when I asked a friend with a short haired cat if it had just had a haircut.

I used to believe…

When I was a little kid I used to believe that tissue paper was money and that you could have a box of money.

I used to believe…

Because I could never figure out how telephones worked, I thought they used wires to connect everyone's house up with everyone else's in the world.

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I used to believe…

My brother told me that every closet has a skeleton in it. At the time, I didn't know that it was a saying, but I never looked in the closet for months.

I used to believe when I was three that when sausages sizzled it meant they were farting.

I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".

— Brandon Campbellschool : teachers