My mom told me that when you buy a bag of shell-less sunflower seeds, the seeds were all individually removed by ladies at the sunflower seed factory whose job it is to chew the shells off and spit the seeds into the bag! I didn't eat shell-less sunflower seeds for a while!
A childhood belief about seeds

others believed things like this
- I used to believe...If you ate sunflower seeds you could read somebody's mind...LOLAnon
- Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.— angelsheep
- I used to think shell macaroni was sea shells.— Don Northrup
- I used to believe that if I swallowed watermelon seeds, I would get pregnantAnon
- I used to think that if i ate watermelon seeds they would grow out of my ears.— Catherine
- When I was a child I used to believe that the the babies were born from the seeds. — Rosimeire