My friends told me in junior school that if I chewed gum and swallowed it that it would give me appendicitis!....Guess what I did and it didn't!!
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- i used to beleive that if you chewed gum it woul give you warts in your mouth my sister told me this— sunney jim of the pearl
- I used to be scared that if I chewed my cuticles and swallowed a piece of skin, I would become a cannibal. Anon
- I used to think that when you went to junior school you had to wear a turban.— Ellie Stott
- Until junior high school, I thought Monty Python was a wrestler.— Jamie
- I used to believe that if you accidentally ate grape pips you 'd get appendicitis.— Sue Beach
- When I was little my dad told me that if I chewed on aluminum foil I would pick up radio stations. — Alex Allegretto