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When I was in boot camp and a recruit farted, the drill instructor would yell "turn on the air conditioners" and that meant everyone had to start breathing very deeply through their nose and blowing out their mouths. I believed that was funny till after the first time.
I thought if you took a bunch of little baby steps when you walked you would walk faster than taking normal steps since you were stepping so much faster
I used to believe your throats had a bunch of sharp bony parts that cut up the food as it fell down. For some reason I never thought that chewing did the same thing.
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There was an older kid at our school who was friends with me and my group of friends, and once when we were eating candy he told us what his mother apparently told him, but he must have misunderstood a little. He said that if you eat healthy, you grow bigger, so if you eat bad food, you slowly get smaller...I was really scared I would eventually be microscopic, but luckily his mom was with us once and corrected him.
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I used to believe women would stop being potty-trained after a certain age because I saw all these commercials for 'diapers' (actually sanitary napkins).
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I used to believe that people dream because they have little TV screens on the inside of their eyelids.
I used to think that the dots and things that I saw when I looked in a light for a long time was a sign that angels were around. It made me believe that God gave me this special gift that no on else had.
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When I was younger, I used to believe that "head ache" or "stomach ache" was "head egg/stomach egg", and I thought it hurt because an egg was growing inside of your head or stomach.
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My mom used to tell me that if I swallowed a fruit seed, a tree would start growing from the stomach making a hole in the head. I actually believed it and wondered for many years as to how awkward it would be to have a tree poking out of your head.
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I used to believe that hiccups were an ingredient in fizzy drinks, so when I got hiccups I thought it was because I had swallowed a hiccup from the drink :)
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When I was younger, I would always be gentle with doorknobs because I thought I was so strong I could crush them.
I used to think that your whole life was a dream, and one day you would wake up and be a different person!
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when i was about 6 yrs old, I noticed my heartbeat in my bed. I thought it was army men marching.
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When I was about 3, I farted. It was the first time I ever relized what happened. So when it happened, I exclaimed "Mommy! My butt burped!".
I used to believe that teachers never went pee or poop. I used to think only normal people did. I believed this until my mom told me. I also found out went my math teacher said that even teacher need to pee and all of that.
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When I were a kid my brother told me farting in public was illegal but they give you 16 and a half warnings before you get in trouble (he said the half warning would be really subtle!)
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When I was younger, I thought that when I went to bed at night, everyone else in my part of the world went to bed too, and every public place and road would be completely deserted.
I used to believe adults couldn't dream. My parents never talked about their dreams to me until I was about 10 or so.
I used to believe that the crusties that appear in the corner of your eyes after you sleep came from a little duck walking across your face in the middle of the night that would poop in the corners of your eyes. I used to try to stay up as late as I could to try and catch it in the the act.
I thought if you cry too much you get scars on your cheeks where all the tears fell down. I'm still not sure this isn't true..
