i used to believe that playin with my navel would cause me 2 fall apart like a toy.
what is this place?
Twenty-four years of things grown-ups were completely certain about when they were small. Fascinated and horrified by the world in equal parts.
Yours wasn’t the strangest. We can prove it.
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I used to believe…
that bunnies came out of belly buttons
I used to believe a spider monster was in my basement
I used to believe that little men (or women) slept & went to work in every traffic light
I was told as a child that pickles were made from cucumbers. I had only seen big cucumbers like in the grocery store, so I assumed the pickling process shrunk them down and made them bumpy!
pick of the bunch
I used to believe that the world map only took up half the globe and that there were even more countries on the other side
I used to think watching a movie in the theatre was watching it being filmed live like watching a play, but once you bought it on dvd is when it became a recording
I used to believe when there was a tsunami I could to put myself in a pool to save me
I used to believe it was illegal to not recite the pledge at school.
everybody believed these
the ones thousands of you sent in, near enough word for word
…and the rest of them in the common beliefs section
26 areas to rummage in
some of them are not for children
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