When you were a kid, did you believe that MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" was a warning to children not to play with hammers? Did you think that babies came out of your butt? Maybe you thought that the moon was made of ice and could only come out at night so that the sun wouldn't melt it? If you answered yes to any of these then this list is for you. Compiled by Bored Panda, this hilarious collection of weird and wonderful things that people believed when they were kids is sure to make you laugh. Believe us!
#41
I thought the big sound barrier walls on the side of the highway were to keep back elephants.
I thought this because my father told me that's what they were for.
I thought this because my father told me that's what they were for.
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15points
#42
I thought that it was really smart that my great grandparents had had the foresight to name my grandpa Grandpa.
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15points
#43
That all of the children living in Great Britain got to have tea with the Queen once in their lives
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15points
#44
I mixed up the words 'matches' and 'mattresses', so when people told me "don't play with matches" I thought they meant that mattresses were dangerous things prone to catching on fire if you played on them. I wondered why we would sleep on something so dangerous. Never had the joy of jumping on the bed until much later in life, when I learned the difference between the two, and that jumping on the bed would not result in spontaneous combustion.
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14points
#45
I thought baby showers involved actual showering. This was supported by the fact that my mom wouldn't let me go because only women were going.
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14points
#46
I thought that when you ate food, it went all the way down to your feet, then filled up from there.
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14points
#47
When I was little my big sister told me to say hi and be nice to the mannequins at the mall because they were people too!
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14points
#48
There are far fewer Tunnel of Love rides than cartoons would have you believe.
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13points
#49
That the black market was actually at some secret location where people came and had stands like you would at a farmers market and if the police came everyone took their stuff down and ran away before they'd get caught.
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13points
#50
That my mom grew up in a black and white world because all pictures of her childhood were black and white.
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13points
#51
I used to think that if a child wore glasses, that child was smart. This didn't mean that I thought children who didn't wear glasses were not smart, just that wearing glasses was a reliable indicator. Then, Mary Beth C. got glasses, and I KNEW she wasn't smart. There went the glasses=smart theory.
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12points
#52
Growing up I thought people shooting guns at my feet and saying "dance" was going to be more of an issue
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11points
#53
The area I grew up in is surrounded by mountains. It's basically a bowl. When I was but a wee lad I used to think that nothing existed beyond these mountains and that if I were to scale the tallest peak of the highest mountain all I would see beyond in every direction forever would be mountains.
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11points
#55
I thought women got pregnant by overeating. I told my mom to eat more so I could have a little brother.
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10points
#56
When you eat an apple and accidentally swallowed the seeds, an apple tree would grow inside you.
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10points
#58
I saw a lot of Geico commercials. I thought that "15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance" meant that the longer you talked on the phone, the more money you would save. If you could keep them busy for 100 minutes, your insurance was free!
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10points
#59
“I used to think that the penis moved itself, like some weird psychosexual robot. The girl would turn the guy on and lie down and the guy would position himself and his dick would, like, have at it.”
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9points
#60
For the longest time when I was a kid I thought the nazis in The Sound of Music were saying "Hi, Hitler".
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9points