You believed what!?!? for way to long...

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BookVol said:
The seasons actually are caused by the earth's tilt. It's why Summer in the northern hemisphere is Winter in the southern hemisphere. The tilt means either half gets more direct sunlight while the other half gets indirect sunlight.

The earth doesn't actually get any further away in orbit, the sunlight intensity just changes based on where it can hit the earth.

So as a kid... you weren't that far off.
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Yes . . . I figured all of that out at some point. It's kind of amazing though how many people still don't put the tilt together with the orbit.
 
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#27
I believed that I was invisible if I closed my eyes. Basically if I couldn't see you, you couldn't see me either.
 
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There was a time when I thought If I prayed hard enough, I could get adamantium claws.
 
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GAVol said:
Speaking of God.... I used to think he looked like the Brawny paper towel guy.
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When I was a kid, I always pictured God looking a lot like George Washington's $1 bill portrait.

In fact, I think I still do.
 
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I believed there was a tiny little green man living in my grandparents closet. They told the grand kids that he lived there to keep order and things tidy but we could not see him because he is only friends with my grandparents and he would suck is into the closets . We never saw him. But I would hear foot steps and it scared the bejesus out of me!

I now work construction and I figured out that what we were hearing ( little mans footsteps) was the water lines hammering and rattling against the floor joists in the crawl space.
 
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An older kid told me that "popping the cherry" meant that when a girl lost her virginity, her breasts bled. I believed that until I was 13 or 14.
 
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barknoxbrawler said:
I believed there was a tiny little green man living in my grandparents closet. They told the grand kids that he lived there to keep order and things tidy but we could not see him because he is only friends with my grandparents and he would suck is into the closets . We never saw him. But I would hear foot steps and it scared the bejesus out of me!

I now work construction and I figured out that what we were hearing ( little mans footsteps) was the water lines hammering and rattling against the floor joists in the crawl space.
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Have you also figured out they wanted to keep you kids out of their closet so you wouldn't find their marital aids??? :)
 
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f77f00 said:
I believed that I was invisible if I closed my eyes. Basically if I couldn't see you, you couldn't see me either.
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Like this guy?

The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is a wild animal from the planet of Traal, known for its never-ending hunger and its mind-boggling stupidity. The Guide calls the bugblatter the stupidest creature in the entire universe - so profoundly unintelligent that, if you can't see it, it assumes it can't see you.
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Used to think the tongue had different "areas" of taste for bitter, salty, sweet, etc. In fact I think that was even taught in schools for awhile.
 
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Ernest T. Vol said:
My cousins and I knew about sex but we thought it was just something bad people did. Our moms wouldn't do it. We thought babies just happened to grow random in the tummy.
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I'm wondering if this is really the whole story.:) Mentioning cousins and sex in the same sentence just seems... wrong.
 
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I know an adult that believed up until a few years ago that your blood was blue "until oxygen hit it".
 
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My sister and I believed if you "step on a crack, you break your mothers back"
 
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If a snapping turtle bites they only let go when thunder claps. I was wrong. They let go much sooner and bite you again!

Dogs can't look up , big black bees with yellow spots don't sting, my neighbor was deaf, and coffee put hair on my chest( didn't know you had to drink it). And chevy is better than ford.
 
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When ATM machines first came out I thought anybody could get any amount of money they wanted. I remember asking my dad for something from the store one day and he told me we didn't have the money, so I asked him why didn't he go to the money machine and get some.
 
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This story belongs here

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The bizarre phenomenon was discovered when doctors attended a 22-year-old woman complaining of abdominal pains this week.

The embarrassed young woman explained that she had been advised by her mother to insert a potato into her vagina as a means of avoiding unwanted pregnancy.

“My mom told me that if I didn’t want to get pregnant, I should put a potato up there, and I believed her.” the unnamed patient was quoted as saying by local news website HSB Noticias.

After leaving the potato in place for around 2 weeks she began to experience intense pain in her lower abdomen. The potato had germinated, and grown roots inside the lady’s private parts.
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pualsline said:
Radio had people calling in explaining things that they had been told when they were younger that they believed for way to long...Some examples are

*Guy believed the world was black and white until the 1940's when TV started in color

*That Alaska was an island because on a map it was always separate from land

One that I actually know someone that believed this.

*A girl's mom rolled through a stop sign when she was young. The girl asked her mom about it. The mom said, "oh that stop sign only applies to the family whose yard it was in." That girl drove through that stop sign without slowing down. Her friends had to break it easy to her

*I believe Santa would throw pepper in my eyes and make me go blind if I tried to sneak a peak of him on Christmas morning.

What else do you have Volnation?
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That's funny because I remember asking my dad when I was little when everything changed to color
 
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