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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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glowworm2
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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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Telmo Belo
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That, I believe, was a massive coincidence. Mostly because the rest of the world would use 11/9

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

It wasn't, it was specifically chosen BECAUSE Americans would render the date as 9/11 which makes it look like "911". Like most ideological terrorists, Al-Qaeda also chose the dates of their attacks very carefully - for example, the 1998 Kenyan embassy bombings happened on August 7, which was eight years to the day that American troops were sent to Saudi Arabia.

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

When Homer Simpson was 'Poochie', he asked Itchy&Scratchy's voice actor if the cartoon will be broadcast live and I think this is d'ohtally cute..

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

As another voice artist explained to Homer in that episode, very few animated cartoons are done live because it is so hard on the animator's wrists.

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

I feel like there’s been this generation that made fun of the 9/11 assumption, as if somehow being slightly older and remembering a time before that event made you more intelligent. I really hope we grow out of that.

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

I thought all the songs playing in the radio were live and that the bands musst be really stressed out to get in/out of the studio in time for the next band to start their song

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

wait dead serious here... 911 the number wasn't named after 9/11? i'm about to be a junior in high school...

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

That 9/11 thing makes total sense if you were a kid when it happened.

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

It was about two months ago I reckon when I realized they are the same number and thought that was spooky

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

When there was a wedding in a movie or on TV I thought the actors were actually getting married, because they said "I do" and the priest/minister/whomever pronounced them man and wife. They had said the magic words. Odd how I understood the concept of actors but not the concept of pretending to marry.

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

Thought that actors had to perform shows over and over again. And that cartoon characters were people in like mascot costumes.

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

I wanted a video machine when they first came out so I could fast forward through the bits of the show I didn't like, or know the scores at the end of a match before anyone else

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

TBH the date was probably selected to mock emergency services considering what happened.

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

My aunt used to think that by turning the tv off when she had to go pee that the cartoon she was watching would stop until she came back and turned it back on.

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

You… you understood what 9/11 was… but you still didn’t understand 911

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Lawless
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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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