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i used to believe

since 2002 — 77,041 childhood certainties, every one of them wrong

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Twenty-four years of things grown-ups were completely certain about when they were small. Fascinated and horrified by the world in equal parts.

Yours wasn’t the strangest. We can prove it.

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I saw my mom get change back and thought that the store gave you money so you could buy from them again.

I was told as a child that pickles were made from cucumbers. I had only seen big cucumbers like in the grocery store, so I assumed the pickling process shrunk them down and made them bumpy!

— Metostopholesfood : gherkins

pick of the bunch

I used to believe that the world map only took up half the globe and that there were even more countries on the other side

everybody believed these

the ones thousands of you sent in, near enough word for word

Chocolate milk comes from brown cows
Condom is short for condominium
Quarter of an hour is 25 minutes
Dragonflies sew your lips shut
If you pick your nose your brain will fall out or cave in
The song "Bad Moon On The Rise" is actually "bathroom on the right"

…and the rest of them in the common beliefs section

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