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Childhood could be seen as one of the most adorable periods of a person’s life. The time when children start to ask and learn various things about the world is very important. And usually, it brings a lot of fun to adults who try to explain and share their knowledge as best as possible. I guess we all remember times when we struggled to understand certain matters. Having this in mind, Twitter user @ExileGrimm asked people what was the dumbest belief they had when they were kids. The tweet got more than 93k likes and almost 7k retweets. 

Image credits: fklv (Obsolete hipster)

The Twitter user started the thread by sharing her own belief that birds grew from bird seeds and that she even managed to prove this to be right. In the comments, people also shared their own beliefs that they soon understood to be nonsense. Even though these thoughts were false assumptions, now they make thousands of people laugh and think of their own funny childhood stories.

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Bee / she/her
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How dare you reveal his secret identity? Just between the two of us, my dad is his associate!

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Bee / she/her
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought people who spoke English were just faking it and everyone's native language was Ukrainian.

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MauKini
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought the black market was a normal market with black stalls that sold weapons and drugs.

Leo Domitrix
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Guilty of this one as well. My parents had a good laugh, then explained the phrase, and to this day, if I find a coin in the washer, etc., I say, "Uh-oh, I was money laundering!"

Eucritta
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought this too, and for awhile was suspicious whenever I encountered bills that had clearly gone through the wash.

Solidhog
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So did I! When they said "dirty money" I thought because it had been dropped in the mud of stuffed in dusty places.

Bobby
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to think it just meant washing money. I would check my pockets for cash before I put out in the laundry for fear of getting arrested

CincyReds
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I kind of thought the same thing. I just thought they washed it, and then nobody would know that they had the money

Cee Mor
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

they did used to wash it to soften it, so it seemed more like used money, hence the term laundering money (or so I believe)

Laura Jones
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When i was a child i thought the same as laundering meant washing to me

Bob Belcher
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Money laundering is part of the act of funneling money. Funneling money is the full process of sending dirty money (money earned through illegal activities) to a person after the money has been "cleaned". The process of laundering any money, legal or not, is just sending it to multiple geographical regions in the world. I can wire money in my account to another bank in the USA, to a bank in Canada, then to a bank in Italy, then then Switzerland, to Cuba, to the Caymen Islands, to Mexico and then back to the USA. I could also send it to a coin wallet after several transfers. The whole purpose is to hide the original source of funds.

kurisutofu
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wouldn't be surprised if that's how the expression came to be.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My father actually told me what Roxanne was actually about when I was young, but I didn't know what a prostitute was at the time.

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Johnny Rodriguez
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Understandable. 1 is the smallest-100 is the largest. It's a unit of measurement that children can relate to..

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Robert T
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well there is definitely some miserable git that turns them all to red when he sees me coming.

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Stephanie Did It
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought that long haired dogs and cats were girls and short haired ones were boys.

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Al Christensen
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It bothers me when parents give a child a name that sounds cute for infants and children but immature for adults. I sometimes suggest, "Put 'President' at the beginning of the name. How how appropriate does that combination sound?"

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An Co
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For me, I thought there was a black and white period, a low-resolution period, and a normal one.

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Guido Pisano
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am italian but when I speak/write in english I think in english I do not translate from italian...

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HoneyBun Arts
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always thought when a woman threw up she was pregnant immediately after. This was thought when i was 6 or 7. Every time i threw up after that i sobbed. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Solidhog
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I heard the term "Great depression" the first time I thought it was because evrybody was really unhappy with how things were going. They never explained it here in the UK fully in history lessons. They just said "and at that time America was going through the great depression."

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s one way to keep the ruffles to yourself

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to think when there was a young version of a person on a program or movie then it was actually a video of the actor when they were a kid

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Stephanie Did It
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like when Elmer Fudd stuck the rifle barrel into the hole and it curled up out of the hole behind him!

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