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!
#161
Growing up I knew this kid named Colin Crawford and he told everyone he was related to Cindy Crawford and we all just believed him.
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#163
I thought sex was when two adults just rubbed together naked and hoped that they got pregnant.
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#164
That my future spouse would have as many spots on her face as the number of rice grains I did not finish eating on the plate...
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#166
I was terrified of Charlie Chaplin. He was in my nightmares. I thought he was evil personified.
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#168
That everyone is born a boy. If you were meant to be a girl then it would just change over time.
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#170
That losing a game of Yu-Gi-Oh, would actually send me to the shadow realm
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#171
I thought that 911 was the number you called for fire/emergency because that was the temperature fire burned at (i.e 911 degrees farenheit).
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#172
I thought the police didn't have to follow the law and could do whatever they want. My reasoning was they were the enforcers of the law so who would arrest them or whatever? I wondered why all the bad people didn't just become cops so they could do crimes with impunity.
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#173
My brother's friend told me when I was little that he had once found a snail in the crust of his pizza, in one of those crust bubbles. For years after that, I carefully dissected every crust bubble before eating my pizza.
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#174
I used to believe that my mother didn't sleep and that she was a super hero!
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#175
When I went to my friends house they would have blue water in the toilet. I used to believe that it was the same thing as the pink goo from ghost busters!
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#176
When people would talk about windchill, I thought they were saying "windshield" as in, don't touch the windshield of the car because it's a lot colder than the air.
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#177
When I was a kid I thought there were little gnomes in the stoplights who changed the lights and controlled traffic at intersections.
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#178
When I was a kid I was quite sure Asian people had narrower eyes because they were eating rice all the time, and their eyes took the shape of it. But that was a completely innocent opinion and I was okay with that explanation.
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#179
I thought that when someone on TV would look into the camera they could see me! I also thought when watching the local weather and they showed the map on TV, if I went outside I would be seen!
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#180
I believed the underground railroad was fully underground like, a massive network of underground tunnels...
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