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BurnerAccount337 , Abdulvahap Demir / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True My father used to have a “turbo button” in his car that he’d pressed to make the car go faster. Dumb a*s kid me didn’t know it was the ac button, so when the air would hit my face while seeing the car move, I thought we were flying. Coolest s**t ever until I grew older and realized lol.

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144points

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Ample Aardvark 8 months ago

Aw that's cute!

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AcceptableSample9636 , Alejandro Duarte / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

However, these stories don't prove that we're doomed. Yet Mercier, a cognitive scientist at the Jean Nicod Institute in Paris, thinks that in order to fight disinformation more effectively, we need to stop believing in our own gullibility.

"We are skilled at figuring out who to trust and what to believe, and, if anything, we're too hard rather than too easy to influence," Mercier said. He bases those statements on a growing body of research in fields such as neuropsychiatry and evolutionary psychology, and argues that humans are hardwired to balance openness with vigilance.

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True I asked my sister what the small brown round things i saw in the fruit aisle were and she told me they were goat balls. Later found out they were kiwis.

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132points

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Libstak 8 months ago

Is this the same sister that said tofu was koala meat?

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Salzberger , Brian Lawson / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True Not intentionally, but for a long time as a young kid I thought women with dark eyebrows and blonde hair were robots or androids or whatever.

I heard my mum and dad saying that someone on TV was fake or not real or something to that effect. When I asked why, they said her eyebrows are black and her hair is blonde. Whatever the terminology was, it was unclear to me they were talking about her hair colour not being real, I just assumed it was a giveaway to know who weren't real humans.

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119points

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Tobias Reaper 8 months ago

she knows too much

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TheAnxiousTumshie , Addilyn Ragsdill @clockworklemon.com / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

To gauge a statement's accuracy, we instinctively test it from many angles, including: does it jibe with what I already believe? Does the speaker share my interests? Have they demonstrated competence in this area? What's their reputation for trustworthiness? And, with more complex assertions: does the argument make sense?

So there are a few ways of scrolling through the list: you might view the entries as proof that we can be easily persuaded, or you might treat them as evidence that we, eventually, figure things out. After all, the people sharing these anecdotes did.

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True Yellow tomato sauce.

When I was about 8 or 9, mum forgot to order a mcDs plain so she said it was yellow tomato sauce from the tomatoes like my grandad grew. I moved out at 18 and went shopping for the first time. Wanted to make a ‘real’ burger. Couldn’t find it anywhere. Called mum; 22 years later she’s still laughing.

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115points

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glowworm2 8 months ago

Would yellow tomatoes make yellow ketchup/ tomato sauce though? Now I’m curious.

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omahaspeedster , Ta Z / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True I thought that men had one less rib than women. I believe I was told this by Sunday school teachers and my parents and believed this until my girlfriend in college told me that it was not true at all.

Final score:

111points

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Multa Nocte 8 months ago

But - but - the Bible!

95points

Hugh Cookson 8 months ago

Ah, yes, that ultra truthful, historically accurate document read, absorbed and followed (sometimes to the letter) by deluded people worldwide. For balance, this also applies to every other 'holy' book as well. Apart from Harry Potter and the Tellytubbies, which are obviously true in every way ....

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R.A. Haley 8 months ago

Saw a bumpersticker once that sums up that whole attitude: "God said it, I believe it, that settles it!"

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 8 months ago

Ah,but which version?

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Kathy O'Sherry 8 months ago

Donkeys can talk, people can fly, and a man named Jesus lives up in the sky

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ZuriLovesYou 8 months ago

I think that only three case for Adam and Eve, mate XD

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Some guy 8 months ago

But - but - X-rays! (Count 'em!)

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Joseph Stillman 8 months ago

the whole argument for the Spanish inquisition, (again my ancestors was hernan Cortes, extremely ashamed of it)

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Cosmikid 8 months ago

according to expert John Cleese- Adam got better.

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Justin Tyme 8 months ago

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Rachel Pelz 8 months ago

But Adam made Eve from his rib, and Bible doesn't mention the rib regrowing...

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Yer Maw Lorna 8 months ago

Went to catholic school and was about the only religious c**p I fell for and genuinely believed men and women had a different number of ribs until far too old watching a documentary and they were trying to determine whether a skeleton was male or female and I asked why they didn't just count the ribs - Google set me straight. I was raging

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Mario Strada 8 months ago

It's truly amazing how many people share this misconception. Bart Ehrman, a bible scholar and professor, made it part of his pre-lecture jokes. The other joke is that there are always a few new student (this is University, not middle school) that absolutely believe Jesus spoke English.

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Regina Holt 8 months ago

And the English language hadn't even been created yet.

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Peter H 8 months ago

Even if the Bible story was true, that would just mean that Adam was missing a rib, not that all men forever had one less. People who have appendectomies don't have kids without appendixes.

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Bo'owowo'uh 7 months ago

Yeah but this is the same book that says because Eve and Adam did something bad, all of their descendants are responsible... A lot of hereditarience

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Justin Tyme 8 months ago

We were taught this in elementary school.

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Dragons Exist 8 months ago

Well that's sad

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Justin Tyme 8 months ago

I got down voted for writing that the Bible doesn't say men have one less rib than women. But that statement is absolutely correct. If you think the Bible says men have one less rib than women, then I challenge anyone to cite it - book, chapter, and verse.

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ThatBlackNightingale 7 months ago

You are absolutely correct- the Bible only claimed Adam had one less rib, not the rest of mankind.

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Bobby 8 months ago

Imagine my confusion growing up believing this, and the twist is I actually was born 1 rib shy of a full set

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J C 8 months ago

I absolutely thought this was true too and I'm sure I was told this in church. I felt really stupid when I figured out that was wrong.

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Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago

When my wife and I disagree, I tell her I want my rib back.

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Andy Frobig 8 months ago

Hank Williams wrote in "Nobody's Lonesome For Me:" "Now I ain't had a kiss since I fell out of my crib It looks to me like I been cheated out of my rib"

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Aaaa Bbbb 8 months ago

I believed this until high school anatomy class!

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Timbob 8 months ago

Didn’t that happen just once ?

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Adrian 8 months ago

Don't believe ANYTHING you read in the bible...

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Justin Tyme 8 months ago

The Bible doesn't say that men have one less rib than women.

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tori Ohno 8 months ago

Then where did the rib go if it was removed to make Eve, and one assumes, Lilith as well. It doesn't say that the rib was magically replaced.

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Der Kommissar 8 months ago

This was taught in some Jewish schools, as in the Old Testament, the story goes that God made woman from one of Adam's ribs.

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 8 months ago

More specifically, depending upon what you were taught, Eve was made from one of Adam's ribs,and she was not the first woman. The first was replaced because she dared to question things and have her own thoughts. So, yeah, that shįt has been going on for millenia.

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Floof_the_Pom 8 months ago

i always learned that it's about 50/50. some are born without one and some aren't

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Min 8 months ago

What??

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ThatBlackNightingale 7 months ago

I don't why many churches teach this- I myself as a Christian, was never taught this. Yes the Bible states Adams rib was removed to create Eve. This does not pass down through generations. The Bible can be confusing at times, but if you really look at the scripture many people here have posted, you can clearly see it doesn't say the rest of men will have a rib less than women.

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2late4me 7 months ago

Had a 7th grade science teacher tell the class this as fact. Then had a coworker who taught science tell her class blood was blue in veins and red in arteries. She was serious.

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Lene 8 months ago

I read somewhere that the word is translated wrong. It is not a rib, it is the penis bone. Which humans do not have so... the story makes sense. At least more than the rib-version. Lol

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Eugenia 8 months ago

Now, what if Adam was born with a spare rib that was used to make Eve? After that they'd have the same number of ribs...

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Jack Lantern 8 months ago

The angle of that photo makes it look like an alien face-hugger is about to get you.

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ElfVibratorGlitter 8 months ago

I've had a few people tell me this and they honestly believe it.

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Greg Baughman 8 months ago

I was told this growing up.... Could never figure out why they had to do all these DNA tests on skeletons to determine if they were male or female... I was like "Why don't they just count the ribs?" Be careful of the fun little "facts" you tell your children...

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Snowhater 8 months ago

The bible says that Eve was created from one of Adams ribs. It doesn't say how many ribs he had before one was removed and it doesn't say that Eve was made with one more rib than Adam. So God made Eve with the same amount of ribs that was left in Adam.

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michael Chock 8 months ago

Christians also get mad when you inform them that skeletons are a spectrum and there is no distinct line between male and female.

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Regina Holt 8 months ago

The skeletons have differences in the pelvic bones. Women have wider pelvises to allow for childbirth

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Melody 8 months ago

Huh, so somebody probably really did tell me this at some point. I used to believe that.

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Maggie Fulton 8 months ago

I went to school in a small town where the teachers believed this.

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Roxie Carter 8 months ago

Ditto 🤦

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Just Another Girl 8 months ago

Yeah, I believed this to an embarrassing age.

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Craig Reynolds 8 months ago

Eve was fashioned from one of Adam's ribs. That doesn't mean all of Adam's progeny and theirs that followed were going to be missing a rib. No DNA was changed and no gene was removed.

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Joanne Earle 8 months ago

Wait...it's not true?

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Max Fox 8 months ago

There are actually two separate stories of creation there. In the first chapter of Genesis, it's written that when humans were created "male and female there were created". A second creation story was stitched on that, and finally a third creation story with the Garden of Eden.

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Jaya 8 months ago

Imagine how many other nonsense things you've been taught because of your religion, that you're not aware of yet. We should question everything we have been taught as kids and think it through ourselves and look up whether is actually true.

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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 8 months ago

Some Bible scholars don't think it was a rib at all, but a baculum.... Many animals have them, but humans do not.

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Camber Hollywood 8 months ago

There is a theory that the original myth has Adam giving up a bone which most male mammals have, but not humans.

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 8 months ago

bible says, so it's gotta be true... no matter if it's not

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batseverywherebats , Alexander Grey / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True When I was a young kid my dad was watching a news segment about funding for NASA. They showed an astronaut strapping into some sort of training device against a wall that began rotating him like a clock. He was spinning faster and faster. The news overlaid an image of a spinning dollar bill which then slowed and came to a stop.

For adults, it was a visual metaphor for the cost of NASA.

For me, it was a demonstration how money is made by spinning people until they turn into money.

Final score:

109points

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Sunny Day 8 months ago

This is why merry-go-rounds were removed from playgrounds. Kids got on, spun very fast - and money was made when the parents sued over the kid's injuries

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BeatRealistic1927 , Arlington Research / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True That working hard in corporate America actually gets you anywhere.

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101points

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Nina 8 months ago

Working hard in any commercial organisation worldwide. (Yes there will be exceptions, but they're the rare good ones)

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Strobro3 , Nam Anh / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True When I was a kid we had this brush in the car, the kind for getting snow off the windows in the winter, and I asked my mom what it was.

She told me it was an elephant toothbrush, and that we used to have an elephant, for her that was just a silly joke, but my 6 year old brain never questioned the fact that we used to own an elephant.

A few years later, I must have been more like 9, I brought it up to my mom; something about it didn’t make sense. How did we feed this thing? Where did we keep it? How did we afford an elephant? Where did it come from? What did we do with it in the winter?

My mom, had entirely forgot she ever told me that, and never realized I had been left to believe we owned an elephant.

lol.

Final score:

100points

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 8 months ago

yeah. oh boy. she must had got a kick out of that!

17points

VegetableBeneficial , Mpho Mojapelo / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#10

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True That the red triangle (hazard lights) in a car is an eject button for the kids in the back seat. Truly believed that was a great call for crashes or whatever. My dad told me that if we were too annoying on long car rides he would eject us via red button.

Final score:

99points

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Ample Aardvark 8 months ago

Ha, my dad said the same!!!

21points

falaffels , Sherman Kwan / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True When I was little my sister told me tofu was koala meat and I believed it for years.

Final score:

94points

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setsuriseikou 8 months ago

What a stupid thing to believe! Tofu is Japanese, so obviously it's Hello Kitty's meat, duh

91points

Mistermatt91 , Katherine Ann Hartlef Villers / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#12

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True My cousins told me that in the Blackpool Tower kids play area, the Jungle Gym I think it was called, that if you jumped in a specific spot in the ball pool you'd go through a trap door into a secret room. Spent the whole of the time we were in there on a school trip trying to find it and didn't have time for anything else. Bastards 😂.

Final score:

94points

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Kaedyn Walsh 8 months ago

If you jump jussssssst right, you'll no-clip into the Backrooms 🤣

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Tru-Queer , Paul Volkmer / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True My dad would tell me he can make red lights turn green just by pressing the garage door opener. I didn’t believe him but every time he did it, it worked. Still didn’t believe him but I couldn’t figure out how he was doing it.

When I got older and learned to drive, I realized he was just looking at the other lights in the intersection to time out when to press the opener.

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92points

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Mohsie Supposie 8 months ago

Meanwhile, the house garage door randomly opens and closes!

68points

darkestirony , пресс-служба / Wikipedia (not the actual photo) Report

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“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True Well I didn’t find out until a few years ago that narwhals are real and not mythical. I’m 35.

Final score:

92points

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Upstaged75 8 months ago

My SIL was the same way. The only place she'd ever seen one was in the movie Elf, so she thought they were made up. :) And I will tease her mercilessly about it for the rest of her life!

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King_Swass , Peter F. Wolf / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True Not me but a pal of mine, it's one of the greatest misleadings I've ever heard of. Her older brother told her that seagulls and bats were the same animal, seagulls by day, bats by night. She believed it for years and years, until she confidently told some friends and they all said, "...what?? Are you stupid!"

Hahhaha, fantastic deception.

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87points

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Zoe Vokes 8 months ago

That is so funny. But poor girl. How embarrassing.

34points

#16

My older sibling would never let me drink 7up...because I was only 6 years old.

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84points

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 8 months ago

that was just so they could have more 7-ups

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SprinklesAea , Vincent van Zalinge / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True That the black dots on a ladybug tell the number of years they're old. I was already 15 when I figured it out lol.

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83points

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Chihuahua Mama 8 months ago (edited)

This one's cute. Sadly, I dont think ladybugs live that long ETA: I looked it up and they can only live up to 3 years in perfect conditions

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Kaja8948 , MART PRODUCTION / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True Told my kid that the squooshy stuff they felt when picking their nose was brains, worked a treat til they got a bad cold and had a meltdown in class that their brains were falling out. Fun meeting with the teacher.

Final score:

83points

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Multa Nocte 8 months ago

Don't really approve of parents telling lies to their children for "humorous purposes." And to have children believe this until they were old enough to go to school is even less amusing.

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LaundryMan2008 , Yeshi Kangrang / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True My mum told me that if you fall down a sewer manhole then you turn into a ninja turtle, I was scared because I did not want to leave home and do ninja turtle stuff and also wanted my body to be human but now it would be nice to be a ninja turtle because I would not have to deal with life.

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76points

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SilverSkyCloud 8 months ago

that would've had the exact opposite effect on a lot of us

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Polluxi , Anita Peeples / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True The holes in saltine crackers were made by trained wasps. I believed this for a good few years.

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72points

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Zoe Vokes 8 months ago

Highly trained wasps.

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No_Educator_834 , Thomas Oxford / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True I thought that if you touched a frog or toad, you'd get warts. This led to an irrational fear of amphibians until high school biology class set me straight.

Final score:

72points

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Ariom Dahl 8 months ago

This was quite a common belief when I was young (a long time ago, I hasten to add!)

67points

Agreeable_Steak7189 , Pauline Loroy / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True That my dog went to live on a farm.

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71points

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Biscuits n gravy 8 months ago

I wish I could find that farm! It must be a lively and fun place with all those dogs running around on it.

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When I was in the fourth grade I asked my mom if we were Irish (I think we were celebrating St Patrick’s day at school) and she told me that my grandmother was a leprechaun. So then I proudly told my teacher the next day that I was Irish because my grandmother was a leprechaun and the second I said it out loud I realized how stupid that was and have burned with shame thinking about it ever since.

Final score:

71points

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Mike F 8 months ago

Nothing wrong with that, lol. My paternal grandma was as short as a leprechaun!

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Ok_Possession4936 , Francesco Alberti / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True When I was about 5, my dad told me that if I put salt on a birds tail, I could pick it up and hold it. I ran around throwing salt at birds for years before I realized he had been f*****g with me.

Final score:

68points

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Lesley Relph 8 months ago (edited)

Cerebos brand salt used to have a picture of a small boy chasing a chicken with a salt cellar on the label

31points

AlbionRemainsXIV , User:PeterPan23 / Wikipedia (not the actual photo) Report

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“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True That if someone has red eyes in a photograph, that means there is a demon living inside them.

Final score:

67points

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Upstaged75 8 months ago

That does explain a lot about my younger brother! ;) (He's got very light colored eyes and they almost always flash red in photos)

25points

#26

Told my wife the channel tunnel has a 2 mile middle part which is see through so you can watch the fish as you pass through. Completely forgot until about 5 years later when we used the tunnel and she was gutted she didn't see any fish.

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Final score:

59points

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Fellfromthemoon 8 months ago

One of our metro/subway lines goes under the river. As a kid, I was always really disappointed that it is too dark to see any fish. Later I realized that the tunnel goes below the river, and the metro cars do not go into the water.

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123fofisix , Floh Keitgen / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True That if you swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow inside your stomach.

Also, we had a lot of those big black and yellow garden spiders around. They would have these big zig zags of silk down the middle of their web and I was told they were writing spiders, and if you bothered them they would write your name and you would die. The zig zag was them practicing their penmanship.

Final score:

58points

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Cathy Augros 8 months ago

Lol, that'a hilarious about the spiders! Really creative! As for the watermelon seeds, when I was 5 an older kid on the playground told me the same thing. I believed it for years!

20points

Typical80sKid , Kevin Grieve / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True There is a snail that lives up your nose and it’ll bite off your finger if you try and pick it. Older neighbor kid.

I googled it and it’s from a Shel Silverstein poem. This has been in my head for 35 years.

Final score:

57points

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Philly Bob Squires 8 months ago

Shel wrote a few songs for Dr Hook & The Medicine Show too! And Sarah Silvia Cynthia Stout, who would not take the garbage out! He was brilliant!

25points

AlbatrossNo1629 , Ali Bakhtiari / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#29

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True That if my sister put a stamp on on my forehead and stood me by the mailbox,the mailman would take me back to God.

Final score:

56points

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M O'Connell 8 months ago

The last recorded instance of a child being sent through the mail was in 1915, so perhaps at one point this was viable.

52points

Living-Ad-9128 , Leeloo The First / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#30

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True I used to believe chocolate eggs were laid by roosters….

Final score:

51points

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 8 months ago

Well, there are plenty of people who genuinely believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

50points

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#31

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True In my case, it was my mother and it was accidental.

In about 2nd grade, I watched an old episode of Little Rascals in which one of the kids uses some "Vanishing Cream" and disappears.

I was skeptical that something like this existed. I did not know that vanishing cream was just another name for skin cream and this was a joke.

So I asked my mother if vanishing cream existed. To my surprise, she said yes. This was a revelation. I said "So . . . can we get some?" "Um . . . sure, if you want to" she said.

As a result of this, I went to school the next day and told my friends I was going to get vanishing cream and disappear. And was embarrassed when I found out the truth.

Final score:

27points

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glowworm2 8 months ago

I used to get really confused when this joke was used in a Foghorn Leghorn short. Foghorn basically put some on Henery Hawk then pretended that he disappeared. Yet, he was still there, so I was confused. I think it wasn't until a Rugrats episode dealing with this exact same subject finally clarified what the heck vanishing cream was if it didn't actually make you invisible.

5points

#32

That beta fish can change colors. My fish kept dying and my dad would replace them and told me they change colors. I had a lot of personal stuff going on and I was a dumb 5 year old so I believed him. He didn’t tell me the truth until I was 11 and my “second” fish had died. I had like 5 Nemo’s. Sorry Nemo.

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27points

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SilverSkyCloud 8 months ago

tbf fish can change colour, one of my goldfish had a black stripe down its back and a few patches but it gradually faded and became full orange after a while

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Ok_Procedure4993 , freestocks / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#33

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True I completely misunderstood pregnancy when I was little. When my mother was pregnant with my younger sister, she told me she had a baby living in her "tummy" which I understood as stomach. I thought babies literally sat in a woman's stomach and subsisted on the chewed up food the woman ate that day.

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26points

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Zoe Vokes 8 months ago

I imagine most small children don’t understand how pregnancy works. Don’t parents say something like, “me and daddy wished for another baby and it happened,” or “when two adults love each other very much a baby happens.”

15points

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#34

Thought reindeers weren't real, basically thought they were the same as unicorns until I went to a farm a few years ago and let me tell, you I was ASTOUNDED.

Final score:

26points

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Cosmikid 8 months ago

Kind of an easy to keep that one alive since so many illustrators of Christmas stuff will just use whitetail deer images - or totally made up deer- as models, never bothering to research what a reindeer actually is.

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ClockOk5657 , Hanson Lu / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

#35

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True I grew up thinking that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from the Moon. It sounded so cool until I learned that, from that far away, you can't see any specific human-made structures at all.

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26points

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TheElderNom 8 months ago

And considering the width any mega warehouse would probably be easier to spot.

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#36

A friend told me that humans only use 10% of their brains and that unlocking the other 90% could give you superhuman abilities. Turns out, we use pretty much all of our brain, just not all at once.

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25points

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Saphyre Fyre 8 months ago (edited)

the 2014 movie Lucy

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jugobenni , Wendy Wei / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#37

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True When I was little my parents always told me to never turn the lights on when driving or else the cops will arrest me.

I’m turning 24 and I just found out last year that it isn’t true..

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Upstaged75 8 months ago (edited)

Nearly every parent in the world tells their kids that!

15points

#38

The sun doesn't actually heat up the earth, it's actually the earth's molten core that heats us up.

So, in sixth grade, I overheard a partial conversation with my teacher and a fellow student. At some point, my teacher said something along the lines of 'if the sun is what heats up the earth, why do mountains, which are closer to the sun, keep snow on them for longer than valleys?'

Now, that's the only part of the conversation I remember and it left me wondering for a very long time(years, I don't remember when I figured it out) about how it is that snow stayed around on mountain peaks for so much longer than everywhere else. They're closer to the sun and proximity to heat makes things hotter, right? And when you stand on a road in the middle of the summer, you can *feel* the heat radiating off of it, right? And the hottest place on earth is Death Valley, which just so happens to be *below sea level*. So, obviously, if the sun is what heats up the planet, then the snow should melt faster the closer you are to the heat source, right? And if the earth has a molten core, clearly that should be radiating heat like *mad* and thus, that's what's keeping the earth warm, not the sun.

It didn't sound right, but I didn't know *why* it didn't sound right. I just lived with this giant question mark in my mind surrounding *what is actually warming up the planet*.

I'm sure there are many reasons why this is obviously wrong, but for a 12 year old autistic kid, it was the head scratcher of head scratchers.

Then I learned more about thermo-dynamics and air density and *the fact that it gets warmer during the day which just so happens to coincide with the sun being out*.

I don't like talking about it, because I'm certain you can get flat earthers to believe it and I don't want that nonsense on my conscience.

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PurpleKU77 8 months ago

....too late

12points

#39

Swallowing gum again and again would eventually create a giant gum mass in my gut that would need to be surgically removed , i wonder when ill have to schedule that procedure.

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KariAdoresHerKats 8 months ago

I was told chewing gum was made of rats tails and not to eat it. So i never did. Turns out my granny didn't want me to get any in my very long curly hair.

3points

#40

The cartilage that covers the larynx that usually protrudes on men's throats is known as the Adam's apple. My wife convinced me that the more hidden cartilage over women's throats was called the Eve's pear. Never questioned her about it bc she said it so often. One day I said it back to her and she had the biggest laugh I have ever heard, lasted about 10-15 minutes, and that was the day I learned that my wife came up with Eve's pear.

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Mrs Irish Mom 8 months ago

Eve's pear sounds like a nice name for a womans down below bits 🙈

28points

#41

In elementary school, a friend had me believe that if you kept a face like crossing your eyes or sticking out your tongue for too long, it would freeze that way. I was terrified of making faces for a while until I realized it was all a big joke.

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Ample Aardvark 8 months ago

No no, it was if you're making a face and the winds hits you (hence me only making faces indoors!)

6points

#42

I actually convinced my wife that the bump strips on the road were so blind people could drive too.

She was quiet till we got on the offramp.

“How do they know when to stop?”.

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Stephanie A Mutti 8 months ago

I hope he told her "echolocation"

11points

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#43

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True When I was 4, my (older) playmate cut my hair. I let her because she said we’d stick them back on after shower. The end result was so bad my mom had to shave my head. I remember going out of town with my family and people thought I had leukemia…

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censorshipsucks 8 months ago

I think every kid I know has done this.

12points

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#44

I grew up in a small kind of rural town. The only restaurants we really had nearby were chain restaurants. For every occasion (birthdays, graduations, etc) my whole family would go to Olive Garden. My mother always made us dress up very nicely for it, jeans were not allowed. After growing up and moving out of that town I had a friend show me a meme that said something like “we all have that friend who thinks Olive Garden is a fancy Italian restaurant”. I was like “……is it not?”
I called my mother and asked her and she laughed and said the only reason she made us get fancy for it was because my great grandmother would be there and she wanted us to look good and “proper”. I had no idea. I went to OG a while later and noticed everyone was in jeans and casual clothing. I was floored 😂😂😂.

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weatherwitch 8 months ago

I always think these are quite b****y. There was nothing wrong with dressing up a bit to go for a meal. We couldn't afford Chinese takeaway but the Chinese did much cheaper lunch time in house deals so we would do that occasionally. We'd dress up a bit as it was a special occasion. I'm 50 now and never been to a posh or fancy restaurant. McDonald/Wimpy was still a city thing in the UK. I don't know what Olive Garden is as we don't have them but every time I see posts /memes like this I just feel it's shaming people for being at the poorer end of society 😔

10points

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#45

When I was little, my Dad and I used to tease each other and call each other Turkeys. We were out to eat one day and there was a uniformed policeman at the restaurant. Without me knowing my Dad had a conversation with the cop. In the middle of my dinner the cop comes to our table and said to me 'we have a report of a turkey running loose inside this restaurant that fits your description. I'm going to have to take you to jail now.' He took out his cuffs and everything, but decided to let me off with a warning by writing me a fake ticket and made me promise to stop being such a turkey. I don't know how my parents and the cop kept straight faces, but I about messed my pants.

I spent the next couple of weeks scared to death that the cops were going to come get me and falsely imprison me for being a turkey.

Good one Dad. Don't ever change.

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Multa Nocte 8 months ago

I am the odd one out. I don't find this funny at all.

25points

#46

My dad told us (kindergarten) that Lake Tahoe was created when a tour bus full of sumo wrestlers stopped on the side of the road to pee out all the blue slurpees they drank.

And my dad was bald only on the top of his head because the hot dog he was microwaving was so hot, when he opened the microwave door, the hot dog exploded and shaved off all his hair.

I figured by 4th grade those stories were false.

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Daniel Atkins 8 months ago

I wonder what other crazy things he has said like this.

8points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#47

Another preteen told me when you're a teenager you start peeing blood once a month, it's called your period. I'm a guy and was told this by another guy. Believed it for a short time...

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Anxiousguest 8 months ago

There might be some men who think like this

15points

#48

I used to believe my uncle was actually a part of the Village People after my Dad said it in jest once. It was an awkward family gathering when I found out it was not true.

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 8 months ago

it probably was a jab at the fact his brother was gay.

9points

#49

My dad told me in a car accident, a monkey under the hood was trained to push a button that inflated the air bag. I always tried to peek into any opened engine bay to see the monkey cause I wanted to pet it.

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Randy Sanders 8 months ago

Trunk monkeys

9points

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#50

My dad told me it was illegal for kids to drink coffee and I didn’t question it until I was 16.

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Stardust she/her 8 months ago

Kids still shouldn’t be drinking coffee or consuming caffeine

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#51

Kind of a different situation but my sister thought the “Blind Factory” was a store for blind people. My dad and I went along with it for years until finally telling her when she was around 30 years old that it was for windows….

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Blue Bunny of Happiness 8 months ago

Reminds me of the joke - A nun was taking a bath when there was a knock at the door. "Who is it?" She asked. The voice back replies "It's the blind man, can I come in?" The Nun thinks for a moment and says "yes that's fine". The door opens and the man says, Nice tits, where you want me to hang the blinds?

13points

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#52

That we were pennies away from being homeless and living on the streets- I think my dad was okay with me believing that because I stopped asking for things. Looking back now, both of my parents smoked, dad drank and would hang out at the bar all the time, he was also constantly giving his brothers money and buying them groceries and clothes for their kids. My brother used to think chocolate covered raisins were chocolate covered ants until he was like 14 but none of us, including him know why he thought/believed that….

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 8 months ago

situation sounds a little f****d up IMHO

10points

#53

When I was a kid, I was looking through a family album with my mom. There were some pictures with a giant dinosaur balloon wearing a hijab and a traditional dress.

My mom said she was a relative (grandma I believe) I was so sad that I never got to meet her.

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18points

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 8 months ago

aww. grammy!

0points

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#54

When I was about 6 my dad told me that the pumice I found washed up on the beach was in fact whale poo. I took it to school for show and tell the next day... thanks dad.

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Auntriarch 8 months ago

If you had found whale vomit you'd be rich

17points

#55

When I was a little girl my dad told me before he had his double knee surgery when he was in his 20s he was 6ft tall. After the surgery he was 5”9. I proceeded to tell people this story when I was younger until one day he overheard me and was like holy s**t you believed that?? He thought it was funny ..

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Debby Keir 8 months ago

I had knee surgery (both legs) when 16, and grew another 4 inches afterwards....Maybe I got his ....

9points

#56

Mustard came from wasps.

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Arthur Waite Premium 8 months ago

Well sure! After all, honey comes from bees, right? And wasps are bad-tempered, so mustard isn't sweet.

11points

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#57

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True When I was young my mum told me that if I put live worms in milk they’d turn into gummy worms and I put a bowl of worm milk in my cupboard for weeks and it smelt HORRIFIC.

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17points

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Multa Nocte 8 months ago

What is wrong with some parents?

27points

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#58

That carrots help your eyesight.

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M O'Connell 8 months ago

Wartime propaganda, alive and well :D

9points

#59

As a kid, my father told me Tapioca was fish eggs.

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16points

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Stuart Fischbach 8 months ago

I told my kids it was sugared whale snot. They will not eat it to this day. Fine with me, I get to eat it all!

7points

#60

My older sister let me believe the dumbest things. For example: At the beginning of Lady Gaga’s song “Born This Way” she says “It doesn’t matter if you love him or capital HIM” and because I was like 10, I asked my sister if she meant HIM from the Powerpuff Girls. My sister said yes. I believed that until like 2 years ago, when I brought it up and my sister about died laughing. She’d forgotten she told me that, and found it hilarious that I was 18 and still thought that. Apparently, Lady Gaga meant God, not HIM 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Anke Dieken 8 months ago

My older sister told me that a nice little ghost lived in her wardrobe who could only eaat sweets. The ghost was shy and could only be fed by my sister while she was sitting in that wardrobe.... I fell for that once, afterwards my sister didn't get to eat my sweets any more.

3points

#61

Not me, but my grandfather convinced my dad when he was a kid that the olive grows on the tree with the pimento inside.

My dad had quite the uninformed argument with his second grade teacher over that one.

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15points

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Deeelite 8 months ago

I sadly thought olives were a man made product until i announced at thanksgiving one year and everyone laughed. I was 20 yrs old

10points

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#62

That the kid who played Mikey in the Life cereal commercials died from Pop Rocks and soda.

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Upstaged75 8 months ago

Urban legend! That one's been around for a while.

10points

#63

I’m allergic to dogs. When I was little, my dad told me that in the “olden days” rib restaurants (as in restaurants specializing in ribs), instead of napkins, had dogs under the table you would wipe your hands on. I don’t know when I finally thought it may have been a joke, but I was over 40 when I finally called him on it. His answer was that he “must have had a couple martinis that night.” Bravo, dad. Ya got me.

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Debby Keir 8 months ago

In medieval times, dogs were under the banqueting table in the hall - probably not to lick fingers, more to beg for scraps.

7points

#64

When i was about 5, my dad convinced me that i was born in china, and that him and my mom lived there when they had me (we were white mormons from the suburbs for context). i didn’t believe him at first, but he said “it’s true, that’s why you can speak chinese so well”. i proceeded to babble in gibberish and he said “see? that was like perfect cantonese”. i told the rest of the family what i had found out and they still hold it over my head lol.

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 8 months ago

wow. some families are just. plain. mean.

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#65

My dad made me believe, that one of the bridges in our city gets pulled into a nearby tunnel when it rains in order to avoid it getting wet.

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 8 months ago

cool trick

1point

#66

That I’d get electrocuted if I showered during a lightening storm.

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Stardust she/her 8 months ago

Happens in situations where the plumbing is metallic

21points

#67

When I was about four or five, my cousins convinced me that the little white marks on fingernails occur whenever you lie.

When I was about nine, my dad convinced me that a plastic cross glowed in the dark. I spent a few minutes in a closet trying to see it glow before I realized he tricked me. He was laughing when I exited the closet.

He got me years later with his best one. When I came home from school, he was cooking stew on the stove. He asked me if I wanted any. After taking a couple of bites, he said, "You can't even tell that it's dogfood, huh?" I started to spit out until saw my dad start laughing.

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 8 months ago

oh. har har. good one, dad. ya diick!

3points

#68

When I was little my mother had a boyfriend who had a teenaged son that convinced me ketchup was brain matter. I didn't touch it for years.

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censorshipsucks 8 months ago

in south africa we have a sauce called 'monkeygland' which is basically like BBQ sauce. Same problem.

11points

#69

The blood in your veins is blue.

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The Dusty Rhino 8 months ago

Only if you are royalty.

1point

#70

A friend in elementary school convinced me that if you buy everything from the Frog Coin shop in Super Mario RPG it unlocks the 'Swamp Stick", which is the most powerful weapon in the game. A timed hit instantly kills anything it hits. Over 20 years later, beaten the game numerous times, bought out the Frog Shop, and I'm still convinced this item exists and I just haven't figured out how to unlock it properly.

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Michael Danhauer 8 months ago

Lol... Next play through Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis 3 times without getting hit and do the trick to fight Reptile in the pit... He'll turn into a weird toxic looking version of Sonya Blade... There was a rumor if you did this trick and beat the fight without getting hit in a certain amount of time you would unlock a character named Nimbus Terrifax and there were even fake pictures in video game magazines at the time... My friends and I tried for days to accomplish this process only to have absolutely nothing happen after we beat green Sonya... I still feel mildly disappointed 30 years later lol

5points

#71

One of my “friends” told me at MY birthday party when I was around 11 that she overheard my parents talking about how I was adopted. I knew it couldn’t be true, but I honestly never 100% believed that I wasn’t until I had an Ancestry test taken as a teenager and it showed my mom as a family member.

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 8 months ago

kids. ruthless little MF'rs

7points

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#72

My husband convinced me the words to Hail to the Chief were- Hail to the chief, he's the one we all say hail to, hail to the chief because he's the chief and we say hail. I believed it for years and then was talking about it to mutual friends and knew it was wrong when I saw the amused looks on their faces.

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11points

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Noproblem 8 months ago

I think those are the words Kevin Kline sings in the movie “Dave” “He’s got the power, that’s why he’s in the shower.”

6points

#73

A college education is the key to a good future.

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Michael Danhauer 8 months ago

It's the key to making properly informed decisions which certainly can lead to a good future, but sometimes life doesn't work out well no matter how much you know...

8points

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#74

My mother didnt like me drinking out of bottles, so she gas lit me into thinking there was a poison gas that would kill me at the bottom of the bottle.... strangely, she pulls the shocked Pikachu face when i dont trust her stories now.

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11points

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 8 months ago

Oooooh. You no trust my ly'n a*s?

2points

#75

My husband recently convinced me that spoons were invented in 1930.

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11points

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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 8 months ago (edited)

oh dear. and before that? suck it out of the bowl?

1point

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#76

My mother convinced me that the song “Hero” by Enrique Iglesias, was written by a man, in honor of his pet fish?? Idk, man. Also I believed until I was EMBARRASSINGLY old, like 14, that babies were born with tails. My dad would always tell us about how once we were born, the doctor passed us to him to pull the tail off, as one does.

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11points

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Corvus 8 months ago

Some babies truly are born with vestigial tails.

9points

#77

“I Just Found Out Last Year”: 30 Of The Dumbest Things People Were Convinced Were True That the policeman will shoot both me and my dad in the head if they saw me standing on the seat while he was driving.

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10points

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Mrs Irish Mom 8 months ago

Wow thats a bit extreme

21points

#78

I believed my dad was Jewish until I was 17 due to a joke he made when I was about 3 or 4.

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10points

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 8 months ago

Noooo! We need context.

3points

#79

A kid in school told me Nelly always had a plaster on his face because he tripped and fell on a birds beak and he was embarrassed of the scar.

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10points

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censorshipsucks 8 months ago

well what was the plaster for?

6points

#80

A friend of mine once convinced his kid brother that mashed potato flakes came from trees, and that they’d put a big tarp underneath and shake it like they do some fruit trees and that the flakes would fall down like snow.

The dummy believed it for the longest time lol.

Geaniebeanie Report

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10points

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Bill Swallow 8 months ago

Don't be silly - Mashed Potato Flakes don't grow on trees! You're thinking of Spaghetti! Check out this really true documentary from the BBC! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU&t=1s

4points

#81

When we first started dating, I convinced my then-girlfriend-now-wife (who is, in most cases, much much smarter than I am), that a female pro wrestler had to take a several months-long break because she could only afford an implant for one breast, and had to save up before getting the other one done.

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9points

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Randy Sanders 8 months ago

Joan Laurer, aka Chyna, a pro wrestler, had a breast implant popped in the ring from a hard impact.

5points

#82

There used to be this website called Peter Answers (it might still be up idk) and basically, it was like a fortune teller/tarot website where the person typing asks Peter a question but if they pressed a special key, they could type an invisible answer so when Peter "answers" it's the text that the person typed. All for pranks, targeted to people who didn't know this. So when I was a kid, my friend asked Peter how I would die and it answered"lung cancer" I couldn't sleep for a week after and begged my dad to not smoke around me. I felt so stupid when I learned the trick.

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9points

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Zoe Vokes 8 months ago

That’s horrible and scary but his dad shouldn’t smoke around his kid anyway.

16points

#83

My mom convinced me that tarantulas aren't really spiders, they just look like them.

icarus_fhel Report

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9points

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censorshipsucks 8 months ago

hmm. Debatable: "Tarantula fangs face downwards, as opposed to those of true spiders, which face each other, allowing them to make pincerlike motions. They also own two book lungs, as opposed to true spiders which only have one. Their lifespan is also longer than most spiders."

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Jesha 8 months ago

Up until I was about nine I was convinced that since female dogs were called bitches, male dogs were clearly called bastards.

24points

weatherwitch 8 months ago

Oh that's good but bad too 🤣

5points

Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 8 months ago

Mom generally called dogs "he" and cats "she". I believed they were the same species. Oddly enough, we had a female dog and a male cat at the time.

14points

Cosmikid 8 months ago

!!! Well obviously. It was clear to me until I was well into 1st grade I think, that cats were the Mommies, and Dogs the Daddies, and the same for Mommy Cows and Daddy Horses.

9points

Mike F 8 months ago

Most of these were hilarious! Thanks for that.

7points

Bettye McKee 8 months ago

And some were downright mean.

2points

Jenna Kay 8 months ago

When I was a life guard, I told the pool rats (the unaccompanied children that were dropped off and spent the whole day at the pool), that the reason their toes would bleed when they played in the pool all day was because they were stepping on tiny fish and getting little bites, and if they played less rough they wouldn't get bit as often. I was 16 and trying to deal with little kids whose parents used us a daycare, so cut me a break here!!

3points

Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 8 months ago

I LOL this one. Thank you. I needed that.

2points

Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 8 months ago

Girls were cats and dogs were the boys.

2points

MurderMittens 8 months ago

I believed that too, but no one taught me. I decided it on my own. I also thought that red, orange, yellow, and pink were girls. Blue, green, brown, and black were boys. I was never sure about purple. I decided this on my own too. haha!

2points

Keith Lancaster 8 months ago

When my Nephew was about five, I told him that crab apples had crabs inside them that would climb out and bite him. He refused to walk under an apple tree for ages after that.

1point

Robin Elledge 8 months ago

My sister told me that Brussels sprouts were parakeet heads. No. Nope. Nada. I still don’t like them. I still love my sister.

1point

Bec 8 months ago

We were teased as kids about not eating the green potato chips as they would 'put hair on your chest', there was also the myth that these are poisonous as they contain arsenic.

1point

The Original Bruno 8 months ago (edited)

Ever see the ladder over the side of a mobile home/RV? He blames my parents, who very well might have jokingly said something so silly to him as a little kid, but at 19 years old, my brother saw an RV round a corner very quickly and marveled to his friends how the water didn't splash out of the rooftop pool. I mean, of course there was a pool on the RV... the pool ladder is right there. He knew it was absurd, but only after he said it out loud.

1point

KariAdoresHerKats 8 months ago

This was a really funny sweet article, very much enjoyed it apart from some of the miserable fun sponges in the comments.

1point

xWILTED_ROSEx 7 months ago

Some of these are actually so cute :3 how do parents come up with this stuff though

0points

Olli Hawk 7 months ago

When I was a kid my brother, my dog, and I all shared a birthday so my mom joked that we were triplets, and I seriously believed I just chilled in the womb with a canine

0points

CamiCamilion 8 months ago

I was 7 and told my 5yo neighbor friend that if we planted Skittles in the ground, a Skittle tree would grow and get so tall she could reach out her 2nd story window for them. Months later found out she had believed me completely 😅

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Greg Baughman 8 months ago

My mom used to joke with me when I was younger that she could "Retroactively abort me" until I was 30. She'd say this when I was maybe 14-18... one day she even picked up a coat hanger and shook it at me saying "Don't make me abort you!" Well, on my 30th birthday, I went over to her house for coffee, and told her "I'm finally safe!" Well, she had forgotten about her shenanigans until I said "You can't abort me any longer" and we both had a huge laugh over it. I miss my mom.

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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 8 months ago

All these older neighbor kids terrorizing little children…

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Knitting Panda 8 months ago

When I was in my early 20s, and very innocent, the girl who lived in the apartment upstairs from me told me she was a flight attendant. She had "boyfriends" come to her apartment a lot and there was - how shall I put this? - A great deal of bedroom shenanigans going on most nights, with not always the same boyfriend. Can you believe I was in my 50s and telling my daughter about it before it occurred to me that we lived no where near an airport, and I lived downstairs from a prostitute for two years?

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Hphizzle 8 months ago

For an embarrassing amount of time, thanks to all the other members of my family, I believed hay bails out in the fields were dead cows. Also that if you presses the springy latch for the screen door, it would ring the doorbell. Nope, I was just short and the doorbell was higher than my line of vision so they pressed it when I pressed the latch. Ugh being the youngest by 5 years was rough.

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Jesha 8 months ago

Up until I was about nine I was convinced that since female dogs were called bitches, male dogs were clearly called bastards.

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weatherwitch 8 months ago

Oh that's good but bad too 🤣

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 8 months ago

Mom generally called dogs "he" and cats "she". I believed they were the same species. Oddly enough, we had a female dog and a male cat at the time.

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Cosmikid 8 months ago

!!! Well obviously. It was clear to me until I was well into 1st grade I think, that cats were the Mommies, and Dogs the Daddies, and the same for Mommy Cows and Daddy Horses.

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Mike F 8 months ago

Most of these were hilarious! Thanks for that.

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Bettye McKee 8 months ago

And some were downright mean.

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Jenna Kay 8 months ago

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Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 8 months ago

I LOL this one. Thank you. I needed that.

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Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 8 months ago

Girls were cats and dogs were the boys.

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MurderMittens 8 months ago

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