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My granny always told me that I would grow horns on my head if I lay down and eat..when she wasn't looking, I would lie down and chew my food, feeling and searching for the horns on my head.

Megan
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I used to believe that if you drank vinegar that your blood would dry up.

Emily Hughes
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I used to be told that if I didn't eat enough, my Mother knew a little boy who also didn't eat, and his stomach eventually ate him up

Harold
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i used to beleive that when you ate food it used to fall down into your feet and carried on until it reached the top of your head, then you died, so if you were tall you lived longer than short people.

Anon
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My Uncle told me that he used to have a hole in his bottom lip. This would cause his mouth to leak when he ate unless little men came and shut up the hole for him.

Karen Little
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When I was little I firmly believed every bit of food I ate went down into my toes, then feet, then ankles, then legs ... I think you get the picture. I'm pretty sure I didn't know this was wrong until we started learning about digestion in school.

Marla
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When I was 6 i used to think that eating Bananas with bruises on was how you actually got bruises!!

Kat
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When I was five or six, I asked Diddee, my grandmother, what happened to food after you swallowed it. She told me that it went to your stomach, where it was made into stuff that your body could use, just like we prepare food for cooking with a chopping board and a knife. For years afterward, I thought of my stomach as containing a chopping board and knife.

David Moore
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When I was 4, I thought the expression "eat it up" didn't make sense, because when you eat, the food goes DOWN into your stomach, not UP into your head.

Kdees
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Now they do say that you are what you eat. I remember eating 6 banana's in a row because I really thought it was cool to look like a banana. Then I threw up and my mum hit me and told me not so stupid.

Ric Brailsford
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I believed that all food you ate in your life stayed in your body, and if you ate too much too early in life, the food would no longer fit down your throat.

ian
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When my sister and I were little, my Mum warned us we had to eat properly at the 5 course dinner we had every Christmas. She told us that if we would chew with our mouths open, or spit something out we didn't like, my uncle would throw up. Last year my uncle died. After the funeral my Mum, my sister and I were talking about our memories of him, and my sister and I said that he must always have had a weak stomach, because something small like people chewing with their mouths open would make him throw up. My Mum suddenly had to leave the room, and when we followed her to see if she was all right, we found out that she was laughing her head off. Somehow it had never occurred to my sister (31) and me (33) that my Mum just invented this throwing up story to make us behave ...

Barbera
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When I was 8, I was told that teenage boys have hollow legs, and that's why they could eat so much! I believed that until I was 12 when I asked my health teacher in school.

Kit
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my dad once told my bother and i, that olives with pimento, were fish eyes.

jocelynn
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I used to believe that famished meant full until I told my mother when she asked me, at my own birthday party, if I had eaten all I could. "yes mum, I'm famished." sez I. "Bang". ""Ouch", mum, what was that for."

Paul Middleton
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I used to think that people's legs were hollow. When you ate food, it went down to your toes and then bounced back up to your belly.

Anon
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When I was young, my grandpa had me convinced that if I ate pumpkin seeds, pumpkins would grow in my stomach. Thanks, grandpa! I love pumpkin seeds!

Dawnatello
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Until i was 8 years old, i used to believe that whenever you swallow the seed of the particular fruit that you were eating, it would grow as a tree from your stomach!! I was very careful not to swallow any seeds until realisation dawned on me later!

anjana
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When I was 4 I overheard my Dad say that his drink went down the wrong whole after he started coughing. After that I was convinced that Liquids and Solids went down differnt pipes when you ate. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how I was suppose to eat stew.

Hollychick
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When I was small I believed that there
were small people in my stomach that ate the food i ate and there were smaller people in thier stomach who ate the food they ate. My father then explained the digestive process in his usual scientific way and for a long time i thought there were stone mill rollers in my stomach that ground the food into atoms and i absorbed the electronic energy from it.I guess I knew there was energy in batteries and somehow thats how it all translated to me.

vitus the mad
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