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I used to believe that if someone smacked you in the back of the head while making a funny face your face would freeze like that.... All thanks to my father

Vickie

that if you loose a tooth and lick the spot where it used to be it will grow back a gold tooth.

brittney

when i was little my mom always told me that if i stuck out my tongue or lip, a bird would come and poop on it...so whenever i was outside i would make sure not to stick out my tongue!

yiikes

I used to have the very peculiar belief that my tonsils--indeed, the tonsils of all human beings--were located inside of the tongue. The proof I had? Tongues are covered in little bumps! Those bumps, I concluded, were actually tonsils. For the longest time, the idea of having one's tonsils removed confused me, because I couldn't figure out how the surgeons could manage to remove every single one. There were, after all, so many, so deeply imbedded in the tongue...

I'm not sure what set me straight. Strangely enough, I don't think it was a sore throat, even though that would've made my tonsils swollen. Perhaps it was actually catching tonsilitis, and gathering on the side that those fleshy pink things in the back of my throat were my tonsils... Though I doubt I admitted my revelation to the world.

Freezair

At age 7 a good friend told me that the tendons you see in the front of your wrist next to the radial artery were "extra arteries." Since the topic never came up again, I believed this until I was 30 and mentioned it to someone, and she laughed at me.

Derek

When I was about 4 or 5, I used to think that everybody had a bottle in their tummy, instead of a stomach.

dej

I was told by another kid at my preschool that if I touched a certain plant, your fingers would shrink. Well, I touched it, and then I realized that my pointer and my ring finger were not the same length. I still think about that when I look at my hands!

Meghan

When I was an infant, I got stung by a mosquito on the ear, and to this day I have a lump of scar tissue the size of a pea in my right earlobe. I thought that everyone had lumps in their ears, and when I was about 7 I felt my left ear and was shocked to discover that the lump had somehow disappeared! My mom straightened me out.

Anon

when I was a child, I used to believe that if someone accidentally broke a body part such as an arm or leg etc, you could go to the store and purchase a new one.

Anon

I thought my top ridges of my inner mouth were permantely wrinkled from sucking too much candy pops like it made my cheek lining wriknle temporary.

BUBBLEPOP

i used to believe my mum had 3 feet because once there where 3 of her socks drying on the radiator and i couldnt work out that they were just odd socks so when i asked her why there were 3 she jokingly told me she had 3 feet! i believed it for years!

janey

My dad always told my brother and me that we had batteries in our backs. The reason was he wanted us to be careful when playing in or crossing the street. He said if we messed around and got hit by a car, out batteries would fall out and we'd "turn off"

Gabe Rodriguez

Growing up, I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth, my teeth would grow in like a Walrus's. Needless to say, my unexplained childhood paranoia led to exceptionally good oral hygiene and have only had 1 cavity to date...and I'm now 27! Parents: Don't get any crazy ideas about instilling this fear into your children to get them to brush. At the time I was horrified and scared senseless! Very traumatizing.

Randy

my mom used to scare us into washing our hands before we ate by telling us that the dirt under our nails were really little worms!

gretch

My parents told me I had a tail when I was born. They insisted for years. When I was in high school I learned about a medical condition where a baby is born with part of their spine sticking out, so that is what I thought I had. I asked my parents and they just laughed. Jerks! I still am not sure if I was born with a damn tail or not.

Heather

I used to believe that all of the food a person ate went into their legs. As their legs filled up, they had to get them cut off and replaced with newer, longer legs: that's how people get taller!

If people got lazy and didn't change them, then the legs just got fat.

Some people couldn't afford 2 whole new legs, so they would get one new one and take off the other, full leg (amputees).

ThunderThighs

I used to think that blood was blue until it touched air.

paetrw

My mom used to tell me that if I didn't brush my teeth everyday, my teeth would rott the next day. My dad even said that if I didn't brush my teeth everyday, a monster would come out of nowhere with a giant drill and drill out ALL of my teeth.

LiLTiger