If you unscrew your naval, your bum falls off... :(
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I used to wonder why my dad's hair was all gone on top. I thought his sisters pulled it out when he was little.
I used to believe that my teeth were in endless supply and would fall out of my head for the rest of my life. I didn't know who the Tooth Fairy was, but she was going to help me buy alot of candy.
I was told as a child that if I didn't clean out my bellybutton well enough, that potatoes would grow in it... It's a shame they never did, that could have made me a bit more pocket money...
I believed until the age of 23 that lungs were hollow, and that if you had a collapsed lung that meant it went all shrivelled like a balloon
I used to believe that my backside was perfectly round, so when my Mom gave me a smack and it hurt a LOT I looked in the bathroom mirror, noticing for the very first time that my butt had a crack and told my Mom "You broke my bottom!"
My dad had wart-like skin nipples on his neck/shoulder area. When I was very small, I used to point them out and ask what it was. He told me that there were diamonds inside!
I really asked him frequently, if I could have them, if he would cut them out.
It took me to my teens (16?) to realize that it had been mean deception.
My mum and dad probably laughed a lot when I was greedily staring at the warts in the past.
Doh!
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i use to believe firemen had no feet.i figured, if they didn't have feet, their toes wouldn't get burned in the fire.
i was a strange, strange kid...
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my brother thought you could cut bruises off with a knife.. he thought they were like banana bruises.. good thing he never tried it :)
On a day out at the beach when I was young and obviously hyperactive, I was told (and believed) that I would only get a suntan if I lay very still and was very very quiet - took me years to work that one out....
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I used to believe that moustaches were actually just long flowing nose hair. I thought it was rather disgusting.
I used to kiss my dad goodnight on his (bald)head as my mum said it would make his hair grow back. It never did! Funny that!
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My friend Becca believed that if you held your breath for long enough, the pores on your forehead opened up to allow you to breathe - she nearly passed out!
Having been to a school with a very religious headmaster who had once used some kind of Christian metaphor when explaining the digestive system, I believed that inside us was a furnace, and all the food we ate was consumed by fire.
My kindergarten teacher told us kids that all of your hair would fall out if you got glitter in it. That way, no kids would try and shake glitter onto each-others' heads.
I used to believe that my tummy was a sort of museum and that everything I ate reconstituted itself inside my tummy. So you could theoretically walk around an exhibit showing everything I'd eaten.
I thought that you were allocated a certain number of heartbeats in your lifetime and that the quicker your heartbeat, the shorter your lifespan would be... Hence I avoided exercise until about the age of 14. I still find keeping fit very difficult.
I hardly ever used to clean my teeth as a young child (a habit I've not exactly grown out of) so when one of my milk teeth fell out, my Mum would tell me to put it under my pillow and the tooth fairy would come and exchange it for something.
Now, my Mum obviously knew I didn't clean my teeth very much, because every time I did this, instead of there being a nice shiny 50p underneath my pillow in the morning, there was usually a really old, rusty, old penny that could never have been used anywhere.
I'm surprised it didn't make me clean my teeth more!
i had a really sweet tooth and i asked my mum when it would fall out...
My girlfreinds Mum told her that if she played with her belly button her insides would fall out.
She still won't let me near it...