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When I was a kid, my father told me that his thinning hairline was caused by flying fish that used to leap out of the ocean and bite out a few strands as he caught the ferry to work every day. I was 23 when I realised that this couldn't possibly be true!

When i was little i was sitting on my mum's lap and i touched her upper arm and it wobbled and felt like it was full of liquid so i said "Mum! Why is your arm all full of water?!" I thought she was sick or something. She laughed and explained the concept of "bingo wings".

When i was about 4 I used to believe that boys testicles were actually 2 marbles covered in skin. I beleived this because a male friend had told me that this was what they were.

My Granny once told me, to stop me sucking my hair, that all the hair you sucked made a big ball in your stomach and eventually it would kill you. She said that once a girl had died and a huge ball of hair was in her stomach, and the put it in horniman museum, near the stuffed animals.
I never sucked my hair after that, but i always looked for the ball of hair when we went to hornimans museum. Obviously it was never there, but i still believed her! Its only now that i realise how silly that sounds!

i used to believe that cowlicks were like salt licks, only for domesticated animals.

When I was in the 3rd grade we had neighbors whose children had really red hair. They also ate katchup on everything and I mean everything. I asked Mom if that they had red hair because they ate lots of ketchup?

I used to think that when lighter people got a tan they went darker and when darker people got a tan they went lighter.

when i was 6 i went with my little sister (5) and my uncle and aunt fishing. my aunt had a belly button ring (that she didnt wear around kids) and when we weren't looking, she put a fish ook into the hole and told us that our uncle wasn't good at fishing and that it accidentally got stuck their. my sister was terrified but i pulled up my shirt when he would cast off (i wanted a belly button ring) my sister still is afraid of fishing.

I was watching a show called Pete and Pete on Nickelodeon when I was younger. The older Pete said something about how everyone's eyeballs roll all the way back in their head when they close their eyes (at least that's what I got from it) and I believed it. I still try to see if it's true by blinking really fast.

i used to think that people with innies and people with outies hated each other. i had a weird sort of outie belly button and my mom said it was an inbetweenie. i thought it was up to me to solve the differences. i even tried to push peoples belly buttons in.

when i was little, i had my ears pierced with a needle and i didnt remember it hurting, so i believed belly button piercings, wut i wanted all along, didnt hurt. i had an outie and since i didnt know where it went in, i placed it at the top of my outie and pushed through. it hurt

i used to think you were either born wit a belly button ring. i was horrified when my sister came home with a belly button ring that she didnt have when we were kids. i thought that was why mom yelled at her :)

When I was little my dad said that your ribs protect your heart. I thought this meant that if you touched your heart you would die instantly. So I found out my freshman year of highschool thats not true. I always wondered how they did open heart surgery

Whenever i had an earache when i was little and i could hear my heart beat in my ears fairly loudly, i believed there was a tiny marching band marching up and down my bones. i was so mad at them because i couldnt get to sleep. i also drew a picture of what i believed they looked like and gave it to my mom, seeing as she couldnt comprehend what was going on inside me.

me my cousin and my brother used t picked n my younger girl cousin because she had loads of freckels and my auntie used to shout at us and say to her that they were fairy kisses and that only special people got them. and she still beliefs itow and shes 13

When i was 6 i used to belief that if you put your finger into your belly button deaply you go to sleep for 10 days and you wake up with a baby inside of you. Now i still kinda belife it and have an irrational fear of people poking my belly button. i dont want to be pregnet. And im 14 and a boy and have a fear of belly button poking. how embarising.