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I thought the carpet cleaner on the vacuum was a "special pump". That's why it made that noise. At least that's what my dad told me.

I used to believe that you had to tell your mini autobiography when recording a voicemail greeting, so you would have to say something like 'hello, my name is John Smith, I am 32 years old with a big brother Michael and I'm a very exotic person, so please leave a message after the tone. Hahahahaha.

I thought tranquilizing animals put them to sleep instantly and didn’t realize it takes several minutes for an animal to fall asleep after being tranquilized. I also thought automatic tranquilizers existed and you could harmlessly put people to sleep by tranquilizing them multiple times in rapid succession, like in action movies and comedies.

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I thought that the word "radioactive" meant if you turned on a radio near the thing in question, it would blow up (the radioactive thing, not the radio itself).

I used to believe that if I made a large enough frame out of blu tack, and then filled it with a soap bubble, I would be able to reach through into blu tack world and build a portal big enough for me to go in.

I used to believe tasers were just tranquilizer guns that use electricity instead of drugs. I didn't realize that electricity had to be applied directly to the head to cause unconsciousness.

I used to believe that tranquilizer darts make people fall asleep within 10 seconds. I also didn't realize it's possible to accidentally make a killer dart instead of a tranquilizer dart if you overcalculate the drug dosage.

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When I was a child I belived that cars worked with magic

— Marc Pujolscience : technology

I used to believe that scientists were robots and they had some kind of chip in their brain.

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When I was a little girl I thought I was going to see flying cars in 2022 because I saw cartoons that said that year, but now that I'm older I realize that it doesn't exist.

— Diara Guevarascience : technology

i used to think that i was a technopath like ryan walker from mech x4 one time i discovered i could lock and unlock a car by staring at its door handle i could also control the car stereos volume through thoughts and even change the stereos channel by moving my hand in the air and this one time i activated an animatronic skeleton through staring later my technopathy stopped working till i was 17 i even thought that the government would take me away from my house not for experimentation but rather to make me pilot a giant robot hidden in a secret government base re engineered or built from alien technology that can only be piloted by someone with my power kinda like mechx4 maybe the government are building giant robot mechsuits from otherworldly technology hiding them in secret government areas and recruiting technokinetic people to fight interdimensional monsters but ive i also heard other requirements for being a mech pilot in mechx4 which i mentioned earlier you have to be a technopath but in shows like rahxephon you have to have strange alien markings for you to pilot a mech

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I used to think cut and paste meant there were scissors and glue inside the computer!

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When I was a child I believed that in the future we will have maid robots.

I used to believe that through cell phones they could be spying on the things we say or the things we do.

— Mauricio Caizascience : telephones

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When I was a child I believed that in the future we will have flying cars, and that we could travel to the moon.

— Mishell Padillascience : technology

I used to think that when you had to give your 'daytime telephone number', it meant that your number would change when people called you at night!

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I thought that 'burning' DVDs and CDs was literally incinerating them.

— These Tunes Are FIRE!science : technology

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When I was seven, my dad went on about how liquid made computers short out, so when a character in a YouTube video I was watching started to cry, I was worried that'd make the computer short out!

I used to think that the world doesn’t spin because we aren’t thrown against the walls while trying to move or just being idle.

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When I learned from Jon Lee in S Club 7 that tanning beds are meant to be unhealthy because they can burn your skin and give you cancer, or even kill you if you get stuck inside and burnt to death, I thought they were just another term for deckchairs, before I knew what they actually were. Would make more sense to call them machines instead of beds. I kept thinking 'why is it bad to lie on a deckchair with a towel, everyone does that in Summer!'