I was always told that if you feed pigeons bicarbonate of soda the would explode...And I've never done it (just in case)
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- I thought that soda was also called "pop" because if you drink too much of it, you'd explodeAnon
- I thought there was a legal drinking age for soda (I had always been told that soda was not for children).— Dial Zero
- I used to believe that sparrows were baby pigeons— greenpolyester
- I thought that sparrows were young pigeons.— Daniel
- my mom told me that if i held in too many farts, i would explode. i took it seriously.— ginger
- I used to believe that clay pigeons were pigeon-shaped clay figures.Anon