When I was little my older sister would pick her nose and tell me that it was good to do because boogers contained Vitamin C. I still thought it was grose and chose not to get Vitamin C via my boogers. To this day I still joke with her about it.
A childhood belief about picking my nose

others believed things like this
- One day i told my mom that i wouldnt pick my nose until the boogers made it look like i was a walrus— Lotta Thang
- I used to think there were little booger factories in your nose that made boogers.— Melith
- My brother used to believe that dried out boogers were actually "paving" the inside of your nose. — sm
- Boogers came from magical booger fairies that mined them over night and put them in your nose in the morning.— Vivian
- I used to believe that a vitamin was a small animal
only recently I have found out that it is not true... :)— Sylwia - I thought the Boogie Man was made of boogers-all green and slimy.— Boo