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Evelína Zlá 4 years ago

Can´t unseen it now....

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Ryukei Panda 4 years ago

That would have been awesome though :)

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"I think some people think they’ll lose face if they admit to not knowing things. But no one can know everything! Having gaps in your knowledge is just a natural part of being human. And sometimes, as the thread proves, those gaps can be amusing!"

Ariane also revealed to Bored Panda what she's been up to during the Covid-19 quarantine. "I’ve been working on a really fun book for ages 8-12 set during the coronavirus lockdown. Unfortunately though, my agent has stopped work during lockdown, so if any children’s fiction publishers would like to read the manuscript, please hit me up! I’ve also been proofreading my next book, called How to Live to 100. It’s a funny health science book which tells you how to live a long and healthy life, and is out on October 1," she said.

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Maik 4 years ago

We all float. You'll float too...

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Heather Keedy Bateman 4 years ago

IT!!!

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Francis 4 years ago

same here

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dev mehta 4 years ago

The bow tie DOES look like arm and legs. Now I can't un-see the image

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Ingo de Haan 4 years ago (edited)

I always thought FILA was FILS FILS-5ece2...b85b17.png

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Royakuss 4 years ago

Congressman Hank Johnson lol.

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Blarrg 4 years ago

I was planning to make the same comment. The man does his state, party and nation proud.

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Sara 4 years ago

I thought the same. Also when I was little, I used to think Madonna was singing "I'm a Cheerio girl living in a Cheerio World!"

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Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago

wtf is "short back insides"? It doesn't even make a sensible phrase

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Stephanie Webb 4 years ago

They don't??????

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Lynn Morello 4 years ago

Stargate Atlantis floats.

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Donna Gettings Apperson 4 years ago

They don't?

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Tony Brant 4 years ago

I live in the Lowcountry of South Carolina near Hilton Head Island. There is a plantation near my house that has a very nice pond with plenty of fish. I have the permission of the owner to fish there. There is a floating island in this large pond. It has full-sized trees, bushes, and aquatic plants and it floats with the breeze or wind. I thought I was seeing things the first time I saw it but it's real and floats about in the pond. I assume that it is growing on peat that is prevalent in this area.

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SciFi Vortex 4 years ago (edited)

They do. On top of moving tectonic plates and the molten core of our planet. Even continents float on top of all that. All the people who said you were wrong are retards.

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Susann Campbell 4 years ago

Me too.

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MissyTheUniverse 4 years ago

Oh no they dont? Wow 32 years of living a lie.....

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Caren Leifer 4 years ago

Don't they?

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Steve Barker 4 years ago

https://youtu.be/X5dkqUy7mUk

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Steve Barker 4 years ago

Float.....float on...

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Fred and George Weasley 4 years ago

lol same

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Elida Lechuga 4 years ago

And now I can't unsee his giant head with an itty bitty little body, hahaha.

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Bettye McKee 4 years ago

So does a certain Senator from Georgia.

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citcat 4 years ago

Me too, I wanted to go swimming under Australia !

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miss miss 4 years ago

Haha.me too

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Mylasia Elliott 4 years ago

what are you now

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Aleksey Elfstrom 4 years ago

some do but they're made of trash

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Sasha Kuleshov 4 years ago

I even thought they were moved by people XD

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Jack Ericson 4 years ago

How?

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Jopp87 4 years ago

Wait... They don't?

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danielw 4 years ago

Some do. Most islands don't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_island

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Panda with Heart 4 years ago

That would certainly make things interesting

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Peachikeen 4 years ago

Me too

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ƒιѕн 4 years ago

Guilty

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dena masoomi 4 years ago

Can’t unsee it now

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wandile dludlu 4 years ago

makes sense...

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Edda Shkurti 4 years ago

Well don't they?

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Kateryna 4 years ago

And continents too, because how else would they shift? Technically everything is floating on lava...

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Up All Night 4 years ago

Those are the continental PLATES. Continents are just the (relatively) small parts above the water surface.

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Peachikeen 4 years ago

And that mummys had girl babies and the daddys had boy babies. Childhood is a strange time.

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SoozeeQ 4 years ago

Planet of the Apes

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39-year-old Ariane has many talents besides her talent with the quill: she’s also a comedian, campaigner, and a songwriter. But she’s best known for her writing skills. If you’re a fan of British TV, then you’ve probably enjoyed some of her work without even knowing it. She’s written scripts for BBC shows like My Family, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, The Story of Tracy Beaker, and Space Pirates, ITV1’s The New Worst Witch, and jokes for Channel 4’s Countdown.

She’s incredibly energetic and also a regular on TV and radio programs like BBC Breakfast, Sunday Morning Live, The One Show, Victoria Derbyshire, iPM, Woman’s Hour, Sunday, and Night Waves.

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Firework 4 years ago

Cannot unsee

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Shea Briggette 4 years ago

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Whatshername 4 years ago

awww 😊

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Ariane’s a seasoned journalist, too. She has written over 90 columns for The Guardian and The Spectator, a few travel pieces for The Sunday Times, book reviews for The Observer, album reviews for NME, and features for The Independent, Independent on Sunday, and Esquire. That’s the sort of experience that any journalist would be glad to add to their CV.

So if someone as talented and hard-working as Ariane can talk about her embarrassing misunderstandings openly, there’s no reason for us to hide our own knowledge blindspots. Don’t you think so, dear Pandas?

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Stimpy 4 years ago

Your friend Lucy was quite judgemental, wasn't she?

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Rj 4 years ago

A melon collie!

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Catlady6000 4 years ago

Wonder how many other kids in the70s and 80s thought that.

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Kate 4 years ago

Omg I absolutely read it as extra vagance at first LOL!

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Katherine Boag 4 years ago

Better than Gisney

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Bastette Cat 4 years ago

E erroneous thought that! There’s even a band called Youth in Asia.

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SoozeeQ 4 years ago

Oh dear! Sounds like a theme for a video game.

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SoozeeQ 4 years ago

That is so cute! I'm gonna use that from now on!

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Geoff Scott 4 years ago

Yeah that’s pretty common

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Stimpy 4 years ago

Sometimes they had to learn fast

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mulk 4 years ago

.. for the King's will!

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Pseudo Puppy 4 years ago (edited)

Well, if your parents weren't into retro music when you were a kid, and didn't listen to the Beatles... logically speaking, this is actually a very reasonable assumption to have as a kid.

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SoozeeQ 4 years ago (edited)

You mean it doesn't? ;-P

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mulk 4 years ago

... and Thor is the real Batman? 😂

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GirlFriday 4 years ago

This makes so much sense to me.

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SoozeeQ 4 years ago

Well, it is for some! ;-P

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kasa alex 4 years ago

I thought The Hague was a building until right now.

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Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

So cute. .Makes sense, children are very literal.

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Ryukei Panda 4 years ago

Same!!

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Charl Marx 4 years ago

As someone who grew up in the West Midlands, I thought the same.

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Storytelling, journalism, and art are a core part of who I am. I've been writing and drawing ever since I could walk—there is nothing else I'd rather do. My formal education, however, is focused on politics, philosophy, and economics because I've always been curious about the gap between the ideal and the real. At work, I'm a Senior Writer and I cover a broad range of topics that I'm passionate about: from psychology and changes in work culture to healthy living, relationships, and design. In my spare time, I'm an avid hiker and reader, enjoy writing short stories, and love to doodle. I thrive when I'm outdoors, going on small adventures in nature. However, you can also find me enjoying a big mug of coffee with a good book (or ten) and entertaining friends with fantasy tabletop games and sci-fi movies.

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I'm a Visual Editor at Bored Panda since 2017. I've searched through a multitude of images to create over 2000 diverse posts on a wide range of topics. I love memes, funny, and cute stuff, but I'm also into social issues topics. Despite my background in communication, my heart belongs to visual media, especially photography. When I'm not at my desk, you're likely to find me in the streets with my camera, checking out cool exhibitions, watching a movie at the cinema or just chilling with a coffee in a cozy place

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Pickles 4 years ago

When I was 5-6yrs old, I thought that the laugh tracks heard in sitcoms was the laughter of all the other people also watching the show around the world. I went so far as to talk into the tv speaker, introducing myself in hopes of communicating!! Eek!!!

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RaroaRaroa 4 years ago (edited)

I remember thinking that the people shot in cowboys programmes on TV (Zorro I think) were people who wanted to die. I knew they were actors, but thought they really died. I was very young.

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Meghann Davies 4 years ago

I was 16 when I realised (quietly) that Neil Armstrong said "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" and not "one small step for a man, one giant leap for magpies" which to me made sense because it would in fact be a giant leap for a magpie...

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U r lovely and beautiful 🫶️‍ 1 year ago

I mean, you’re not wrong

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Daria Z 4 years ago

Suppositories in Russian are called "candles" and I believed they were thin medical candles that you have to stick up your bum and then LIGHT them. Ohh, learning the truth was so embarrassing, especially since I was well into my 20s 😳

16points

Binxyminxem 4 years ago

Lol right as I was reading this one of my dogs farted, he couldn't have timed it better! 🤣🤣🤣

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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago

I laughed so hard at the KFC sign with legs. I still have years in my eyes.

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togcrewsc 4 years ago

I cracked up when I read this, bc I imagined calendars stuck in your eyes.

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Tardis42 4 years ago

When I was little, I was terrified of thunder, so my mother tried to help by telling me it was just the sound of clouds banging into each other. Unfortunately, I believed that into high school when I was corrected after asking what was in clouds that could make that much noise.

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Liam Walsh 4 years ago

My mother told me God was rearranging the furniture!

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Candace Fitzpatrick 4 years ago

I was also told that as a child

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U r lovely and beautiful 🫶️‍ 1 year ago

It was angels bowling for me. Thanks to the Simpsons. But my sisters thought lightning and thunder were either the same thing or thunder was lightning and lightning was thunder and they didn’t believe me when I said the lightning is the electricity between clouds and ground and the thunder is the sound it makes. They also didn’t believe that lightning is hotter than the sun

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Barn Owl 4 years ago

Perfect timing! It is storming where I live, and I heard thunder as I read this.

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Anna Wentz 4 years ago

I read this as clouds banging eachothet and thought your mother had a dirty mind.

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Troux 4 years ago

I thought that the unit of weight, pounds was abbreviated as 'lb' because everyone - not just me - needs a reminder of how many ounces are in a pound and the lb looks like a 16.

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glowworm2 4 years ago (edited)

Until (embarrassingly) recently, I thought that Ted Bundy, the serial killer was also an Actor on Married with Children--and that he played the father character--Al Bundy. I thought he became a serial killer later.

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LilicatUK 4 years ago

You owe me a cup of coffee and a new monitor 🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣

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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago

I have a few. I thought the M and F on toilets stood for Mother and Father. imagine my embarrassment walking into the male toilets. I thought Sarsparilla was made from dogs. I thought my head would fall off after having a small lump cut out of head. That’s just those ones I can remember right now.

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Jon S. 4 years ago

"I thought Sarsparilla was made from dog" that's really funny! Any idea where you got that idea from?

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cassiushumanmother 4 years ago

When i was a kid i thought that the "slippery road sign" was the head of Zephyr from Babar. panneau-ze...7e5a77.jpg

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Candace Fitzpatrick 4 years ago

I thought a pony was a baby horse until this year... I’m 42

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Barn Owl 4 years ago

Really?!

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David Fox 4 years ago

Wow I always thought that 2.

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Alice Remedios 4 years ago

Wait, it’s not?! I just got smarter but apparently that’s not saying much! Lol

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CbusResident 4 years ago

Also, 1. I thought for the longest time that the US National Anthem (The Star Spangled Banner) went: 'Jose can you see'. 2. On TV when a cop arrests someone in the US and reads them their Miranda Rights, I thought this was a command that the person must be silent - or else anything they say would be used against them in a court of law. As a lawyer I now know that technically they're actually giving you an OPTION to not talk - because what you say could be used against you in court. I think a lot of people misunderstand that though.

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LoPandas 4 years ago

Geoffrey Holland then I must be really f*****g stupid

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David Fox 4 years ago

I used to think that too.

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Mary Padgett 4 years ago

I thought the steeple or cross on top of churches worked like a tv antenna to channel God.

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Gipsy Kings fan 4 years ago

When I was a little kid in the '60s, I read dozens of my brother's classic Marvel comics (pre-superhero era, many featuring monsters or beings from other planets). I thought that "alien" only referred to a person / creature from another planet. I can't remember how many years went by or how old I was when I found out it also means a person from a foreign country! :-D

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Cyndi Hafele 4 years ago

I used to think pubic hair was called public hair, and I couldn't understand why, because it's the most private of all your hair.

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Binxyminxem 4 years ago

Lol reminds me of when I used to call pawns in chess "prawns"!

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Lyra Rey 4 years ago

When I was really little I thought you could enter the world of your favorite tv show by climbing through the screen. More than once my sister came downstairs to find me head butting the tv.

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Bunzilla 4 years ago

When I was really little, like... 4...?? or younger, I remember being in my kitchen with my mother and my older brother, and suddenly having this grand revelation. "Ohh, I get it now! Milk comes from cows, eggs comes from chickens, and quackers (crackers) comes from ducks!" I couldn't understand why they were both laughing at me and felt very offended, haha.

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CbusResident 4 years ago (edited)

1. As a 4-5 year old, my family's neighbors had a crew of guys fixing their garage roof for a week or so, & since a few of them wore bandanas I kept nervously telling my mom they were pirates. 2. Around those ages I thought at movie theaters that the screens could only show people b/c those people were in back of the screen doing it all, that we were just seeing live action mediated through the screen. (Though I didn't know how to explain that to anyone then, good thing I never did, laughing face palm). 3. The Arby's logo: I had no clue it was a cowboy hat for the longest tine. 4. The 1990-era Blockbuster ad w/ the cheezy jingle 'Wow, what a difference! Blockbuster Video!' - I thought was saying 'Ghostbuster Video!' 5. This is worse: for the movie Tropic Thunder, a pal of mine was so thrown off by the fake previews they show at the beginning of fake comically bad movies for the fictional Hollywood stars in Tropic Thunder. I had to explain this to him like three times, like: 'See, that's one of the dumb action movies that Ben Stiller's CHARACTER would have done...Do you understand?!' He did eventually, lol.

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read041 4 years ago (edited)

I thought the old 8 tracks were called "A tracks". I was corrected a few weeks ago. I'm in my 30s :/

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LoPandas 4 years ago

What, they're not

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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago

The Police song "Spirits in a material world" was heard by me as a kid (at 430 AM, farm life, eh?) as "I stare itno my cereal bowl". My mother thought the same. Enlightenment didn't change how we sing it, btw. We still stare into our cereal bowls!

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Katie Allen 4 years ago

I heard there are spirits eating my cheerios

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Nadine 4 years ago

I thought God was named Peter. Thanks be to God. Thanks Peter God.

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SepBass Five15 4 years ago

I thought there were "good guy teams" & "bad guy teams" in all pro sports when I was a kid like in WWF pro wrestling.

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Paula Raymundo 4 years ago

Now I can't unsee the arms and legs of Colonel Sanders! XD

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oz 4 years ago

I used to believe people with blue or green eyes, could see everything in that color! :o jeje

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Up All Night 4 years ago

And all those poor people with almost black irises! How can they see? :)

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Cecilia Cheung 4 years ago

I honestly thought that the verse "dark sacred night" in What a Wonderful World said dogs say goodnight well until my early teens

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Rose the Cook 4 years ago

Radio and TV often mentioned "the criminal underground" when I was a child. My parents could not understand my fear of the subway.

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Kjorn 4 years ago

i though a horse was the male and the cow was the female when i was a kid

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Lyra Rey 4 years ago

I thought that "subtle" meant the opposite of what it really means because it sounded like it was related to the word "sudden." I first heard the word subtle when I was 12 and my dad read me The Subtle Knife. I loved it, but my misunderstanding of the title made it a bit confusing. I learned the real meaning a few years later but I didn't tell my dad about this until I was 32. Now we refer to The Subtle Knife as "The Knife that Jumps Out at You."

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Kateryna 4 years ago

Another one - I used to wear rubber bands on my wrists and tied them really tightly until my grandma told me it will stop my blood from flowing into my hand and it will fall off. 10 years later, I have a phobia of touching my wrists, and until I was 8 I believed my hand could actually fall off if I touched my veins.

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My O My 4 years ago

I used to think the band would play the songs you heard in the radio live

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Nia Loves Art 4 years ago (edited)

I thought subpoenaed was pronounced sub-po-nayd, and ennui was pronounced en-you-i. I still instinctively read them that way.

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Chelsea Shimell 4 years ago

I thought Ethiopian was the illness for starving children when they were so bad their bellies were bloated but their arms and legs were tiny. Because of the save a child infomercials on tv. Wasn’t until I watched a sporting event and there was an Ethiopian team I found out it’s a country 😳 I thought it was so cruel they were making them compete 😬

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Jon S. 4 years ago

Sad, but entirely understandable

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Radek Suski 4 years ago

As I child I thought "Outland" is an actual country

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Annabeth Chase 4 years ago (edited)

Me: *looking at you comment* No one: Me: Oh, so all the houses there are out houses! No one: Me: ...I'll show myself to the door.

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zims 4 years ago

For the longest time I thought the USPS logo was a hatchet head in a slingshot. I still have trouble seeing the eagle.

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Spikey Bunny 4 years ago

Good one! I had to look

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Steve Barnett 4 years ago

Until only a few years ago I thought that milk was a liquid in its own right. Didn't realise it was 88% water.

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Kateryna 4 years ago

Wait, it isn`t a liquid?? [mind blown]

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Lola 4 years ago

When I was little I used to think you get pregnant by kissing. One day we had people over and I saw a couple kissing on tv and I yelled, “you’re going to get her pregnant.” I must’ve been about 7 or 8. The whole room fell silent and then everyone burst out laughing. To this day, every chance my family gets, they mention it to me.

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MAnahP 4 years ago

I have a few. #1 Vladimir Lenin and John Lennon were the same person. #2 Captain Cook and Captain Hook were the same person (I grew up in New Zealand) #3 Australia was Oz therefore the Prime Minister of Australia was the Wizard of Oz.

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Zaykayemi Gma 4 years ago

Up until a couple years ago I thought rice was baby pasta. I'm 43.....

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Nuno José Almeida 4 years ago

At the age of 12, I finally understood the meaning of Except. Before, I thought it meant Mainly. I still remember when it hit me.

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Jon S. 4 years ago (edited)

I always thought people described disappointments as "damp squids." I didn't even click when I watched an episode of IT crowd in which Jen was corrected for having the same misconception, I thought the joke was she was right and everyone else was wrong. Years later I discovered there were these explosive things called squibs and "Damp Squib" suddenly made a whole lot more sense than damp squid.

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Seabeast 4 years ago

The main newspaper in my home city was called The Herald. So of course I wondered why there were angels from the paper singing "Glory to the newborn king" at Christmas. I also thought the moon followed me when i walked at night while the earth stood still.

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Katie Allen 4 years ago

lots of kids think that moon thing

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Meghann Davies 4 years ago

I was 16 when I realised (quietly) that Neil Armstrong said "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" and not "one small step for a man, one giant leap for magpies" which to me made sense since it would have been a giant leap for a magpie...

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Dianna Siever 4 years ago

I've never heard of half of the things people here are referring to. Are they obscure, or am I not worldly enough?

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Cho Chang 4 years ago

I used to think that the judges on cooking shows exchanged some kind of secret look to decide who won/lost. I also pronounced Zeus Ze-zus as a child.

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Up All Night 4 years ago

Zezus, son of Zeus and Jesus 🤣

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U r lovely and beautiful 🫶️‍ 1 year ago

I thought cartoon characters were people dressed in costumes. I associate that memory with Charlie and Lola bc they were obviously drawn but I thought they were people in costumes 😭

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Tina Ábrahám 4 years ago

I love Winnie The Pooh, especially Kanga and Roo, but in my native language Roo called "Pocket Baby" (rough mirror translation), so I didn't realised anything and thought that he called this way 'cause kangaroos have pockets. Now I'm 24 and speak english for almost 14 years, but I needed this long time to realise that their name is the word kangaroo, just separated in the middle. I feel so dumb.

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Edwin Quantrall 4 years ago

When I was young, I thought that Bachman Turner Overdrive was a Rock band that consisted of Mr. Bachman, Mr. Turner, and Mr. Overdrive. (It probably didn't help that my mom worked for a law firm.)

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Michele Clarke 4 years ago

When I was little I thought when songs had my name in them that the radio was singing to me!! and I also thought Fantasy Island was a real place! HAHAHA!

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Daniel Heykoop 4 years ago

Wendys logo

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Anna Wentz 4 years ago

My uncle told me when I was a wee girl that babies come in a kit from sears and are assembled. He then went on to say I was a discount from Walmart. Nice guy.

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Annabeth Chase 4 years ago

And I was a free giveaway from the flea market.

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Parmeisan 4 years ago

Nobody else thought it was windshield factor? Nobody?? I was certain that would be on this list.

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Nuno José Almeida 4 years ago

Until 12, I thought except meant mainly. :D I still remember where I was I how I figure it out.

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TheHerplover 4 years ago

Used to think the red part of the Superman logo was the S, that bee sting was beasting, that nostalgia was when your nose was clogged (same with nauseous) and much more

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Crissy Brandt 4 years ago

When I was little I thought the lyrics to Little Red Corvette was Baby Come Back. I’m still awful at hearing/understanding lyrics. 😐

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Tabitha L 4 years ago (edited)

As a child, I couldn't see the eagle in the (old) US Post Office logo. I thought it was some weird face/profile facing left. Not an eagle facing right. To this day, even though I know it is an eagle, I see the weird face thing.

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togcrewsc 4 years ago

I used to think that the key bank symbol was a lion, and that when girls grew up they became men and when boys grew up they became women, and that those marks on blacktop were meteorites.

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Sioux White 4 years ago

I used to think a veterinarian was a doctors for vegetarian people

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elia 84631 4 years ago

I thought that mushroom kingdom was in England, princess peach was the queen and the Hyrule in Germany

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Rex the Rat 4 years ago

I used to think that the Wizard of Oz was on word before I actually watched it.

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Effie Haverlad 4 years ago

I always thought that Shia LaBeouf's name was Shilo Buff!

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Kateryna 4 years ago

I always watched TV lying down on my side until my parents said my eyeballs will turn over inside their sockets. I got scared to even turn my head a little.

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Yelena Yardeen 4 years ago

I was, like, 20 until I figured out that it was "keyless entry" and not "key luh sentry"

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Firework 4 years ago

😂

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Hay 4 years ago

Yassss! My first ever up vote.

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Annabeth Chase 4 years ago

I'll give you one ; )

1point

Binxyminxem 4 years ago

When I was younger me and my family went to Miami for a holiday. I remember walking into my parents' bedroom and asking my mum something like "do I have an Ami? Who is your ami?" Lol, it was a great holiday! I kissed Mickey Mouse's nose at Disneyland! 😄

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Pickles 4 years ago

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RaroaRaroa 4 years ago (edited)

I remember thinking that the people shot in cowboys programmes on TV (Zorro I think) were people who wanted to die. I knew they were actors, but thought they really died. I was very young.

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Meghann Davies 4 years ago

16points

U r lovely and beautiful 🫶️‍ 1 year ago

I mean, you’re not wrong

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Daria Z 4 years ago

16points

Binxyminxem 4 years ago

Lol right as I was reading this one of my dogs farted, he couldn't have timed it better! 🤣🤣🤣

9points

Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 4 years ago

I laughed so hard at the KFC sign with legs. I still have years in my eyes.

15points

togcrewsc 4 years ago

I cracked up when I read this, bc I imagined calendars stuck in your eyes.

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Tardis42 4 years ago

11points

Liam Walsh 4 years ago

My mother told me God was rearranging the furniture!

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Candace Fitzpatrick 4 years ago

I was also told that as a child

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U r lovely and beautiful 🫶️‍ 1 year ago

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Barn Owl 4 years ago

Perfect timing! It is storming where I live, and I heard thunder as I read this.

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Anna Wentz 4 years ago

I read this as clouds banging eachothet and thought your mother had a dirty mind.

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Troux 4 years ago

I thought that the unit of weight, pounds was abbreviated as 'lb' because everyone - not just me - needs a reminder of how many ounces are in a pound and the lb looks like a 16.

11points

glowworm2 4 years ago (edited)

10points

LilicatUK 4 years ago

You owe me a cup of coffee and a new monitor 🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣

16points

Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago

9points

Jon S. 4 years ago

"I thought Sarsparilla was made from dog" that's really funny! Any idea where you got that idea from?

1point

cassiushumanmother 4 years ago

When i was a kid i thought that the "slippery road sign" was the head of Zephyr from Babar. panneau-ze...7e5a77.jpg

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Candace Fitzpatrick 4 years ago

I thought a pony was a baby horse until this year... I’m 42

7points

Barn Owl 4 years ago

Really?!

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David Fox 4 years ago

Wow I always thought that 2.

1point

Alice Remedios 4 years ago

Wait, it’s not?! I just got smarter but apparently that’s not saying much! Lol

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CbusResident 4 years ago

7points

LoPandas 4 years ago

Geoffrey Holland then I must be really f*****g stupid

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David Fox 4 years ago

I used to think that too.

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Geoffrey Holland 4 years ago

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Mary Padgett 4 years ago

I thought the steeple or cross on top of churches worked like a tv antenna to channel God.

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Gipsy Kings fan 4 years ago

6points

Cyndi Hafele 4 years ago

I used to think pubic hair was called public hair, and I couldn't understand why, because it's the most private of all your hair.

6points

Binxyminxem 4 years ago

Lol reminds me of when I used to call pawns in chess "prawns"!

4points

Lyra Rey 4 years ago

When I was really little I thought you could enter the world of your favorite tv show by climbing through the screen. More than once my sister came downstairs to find me head butting the tv.

6points

Bunzilla 4 years ago

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CbusResident 4 years ago (edited)

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read041 4 years ago (edited)

I thought the old 8 tracks were called "A tracks". I was corrected a few weeks ago. I'm in my 30s :/

5points

LoPandas 4 years ago

What, they're not

1point

Leo Domitrix 4 years ago

5points

Katie Allen 4 years ago

I heard there are spirits eating my cheerios

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Nadine 4 years ago

I thought God was named Peter. Thanks be to God. Thanks Peter God.

5points

SepBass Five15 4 years ago

I thought there were "good guy teams" & "bad guy teams" in all pro sports when I was a kid like in WWF pro wrestling.

5points

Paula Raymundo 4 years ago

Now I can't unsee the arms and legs of Colonel Sanders! XD

4points

oz 4 years ago

I used to believe people with blue or green eyes, could see everything in that color! :o jeje

4points

Up All Night 4 years ago

And all those poor people with almost black irises! How can they see? :)

1point

Cecilia Cheung 4 years ago

I honestly thought that the verse "dark sacred night" in What a Wonderful World said dogs say goodnight well until my early teens

4points

Rose the Cook 4 years ago

Radio and TV often mentioned "the criminal underground" when I was a child. My parents could not understand my fear of the subway.

3points

Kjorn 4 years ago

i though a horse was the male and the cow was the female when i was a kid

3points

Lyra Rey 4 years ago

3points

Kateryna 4 years ago

3points

My O My 4 years ago

I used to think the band would play the songs you heard in the radio live

2points

Nia Loves Art 4 years ago (edited)

I thought subpoenaed was pronounced sub-po-nayd, and ennui was pronounced en-you-i. I still instinctively read them that way.

2points

Chelsea Shimell 4 years ago

2points

Jon S. 4 years ago

Sad, but entirely understandable

1point

Radek Suski 4 years ago

As I child I thought "Outland" is an actual country

2points

Annabeth Chase 4 years ago (edited)

Me: *looking at you comment* No one: Me: Oh, so all the houses there are out houses! No one: Me: ...I'll show myself to the door.

1point

zims 4 years ago

For the longest time I thought the USPS logo was a hatchet head in a slingshot. I still have trouble seeing the eagle.

2points

Spikey Bunny 4 years ago

Good one! I had to look

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Steve Barnett 4 years ago

Until only a few years ago I thought that milk was a liquid in its own right. Didn't realise it was 88% water.

2points

Kateryna 4 years ago

Wait, it isn`t a liquid?? [mind blown]

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Lola 4 years ago

1point

MAnahP 4 years ago

1point

Zaykayemi Gma 4 years ago

Up until a couple years ago I thought rice was baby pasta. I'm 43.....

1point

Nuno José Almeida 4 years ago

At the age of 12, I finally understood the meaning of Except. Before, I thought it meant Mainly. I still remember when it hit me.

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Jon S. 4 years ago (edited)

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Seabeast 4 years ago

1point

Katie Allen 4 years ago

lots of kids think that moon thing

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Meghann Davies 4 years ago

I was 16 when I realised (quietly) that Neil Armstrong said "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" and not "one small step for a man, one giant leap for magpies" which to me made sense since it would have been a giant leap for a magpie...

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Dianna Siever 4 years ago

I've never heard of half of the things people here are referring to. Are they obscure, or am I not worldly enough?

1point

Cho Chang 4 years ago

I used to think that the judges on cooking shows exchanged some kind of secret look to decide who won/lost. I also pronounced Zeus Ze-zus as a child.

1point

Up All Night 4 years ago

Zezus, son of Zeus and Jesus 🤣

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U r lovely and beautiful 🫶️‍ 1 year ago

I thought cartoon characters were people dressed in costumes. I associate that memory with Charlie and Lola bc they were obviously drawn but I thought they were people in costumes 😭

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Tina Ábrahám 4 years ago

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Edwin Quantrall 4 years ago

When I was young, I thought that Bachman Turner Overdrive was a Rock band that consisted of Mr. Bachman, Mr. Turner, and Mr. Overdrive. (It probably didn't help that my mom worked for a law firm.)

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Michele Clarke 4 years ago

When I was little I thought when songs had my name in them that the radio was singing to me!! and I also thought Fantasy Island was a real place! HAHAHA!

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Daniel Heykoop 4 years ago

Wendys logo

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Anna Wentz 4 years ago

My uncle told me when I was a wee girl that babies come in a kit from sears and are assembled. He then went on to say I was a discount from Walmart. Nice guy.

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Annabeth Chase 4 years ago

And I was a free giveaway from the flea market.

1point

Parmeisan 4 years ago

Nobody else thought it was windshield factor? Nobody?? I was certain that would be on this list.

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Nuno José Almeida 4 years ago

Until 12, I thought except meant mainly. :D I still remember where I was I how I figure it out.

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TheHerplover 4 years ago

Used to think the red part of the Superman logo was the S, that bee sting was beasting, that nostalgia was when your nose was clogged (same with nauseous) and much more

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Crissy Brandt 4 years ago

When I was little I thought the lyrics to Little Red Corvette was Baby Come Back. I’m still awful at hearing/understanding lyrics. 😐

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Tabitha L 4 years ago (edited)

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togcrewsc 4 years ago

I used to think that the key bank symbol was a lion, and that when girls grew up they became men and when boys grew up they became women, and that those marks on blacktop were meteorites.

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Sioux White 4 years ago

I used to think a veterinarian was a doctors for vegetarian people

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elia 84631 4 years ago

I thought that mushroom kingdom was in England, princess peach was the queen and the Hyrule in Germany

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Rex the Rat 4 years ago

I used to think that the Wizard of Oz was on word before I actually watched it.

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Effie Haverlad 4 years ago

I always thought that Shia LaBeouf's name was Shilo Buff!

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Kateryna 4 years ago

I always watched TV lying down on my side until my parents said my eyeballs will turn over inside their sockets. I got scared to even turn my head a little.

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Yelena Yardeen 4 years ago

I was, like, 20 until I figured out that it was "keyless entry" and not "key luh sentry"

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Firework 4 years ago

😂

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Hay 4 years ago

Yassss! My first ever up vote.

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Annabeth Chase 4 years ago

I'll give you one ; )

1point