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Having been to a school with a very religious headmaster who had once used some kind of Christian metaphor when explaining the digestive system, I believed that inside us was a furnace, and all the food we ate was consumed by fire.

Jimbo

I used to believe that my tummy was a sort of museum and that everything I ate reconstituted itself inside my tummy. So you could theoretically walk around an exhibit showing everything I'd eaten.

Patty

I thought that you were allocated a certain number of heartbeats in your lifetime and that the quicker your heartbeat, the shorter your lifespan would be... Hence I avoided exercise until about the age of 14. I still find keeping fit very difficult.

Jimbo

I hardly ever used to clean my teeth as a young child (a habit I've not exactly grown out of) so when one of my milk teeth fell out, my Mum would tell me to put it under my pillow and the tooth fairy would come and exchange it for something.

Now, my Mum obviously knew I didn't clean my teeth very much, because every time I did this, instead of there being a nice shiny 50p underneath my pillow in the morning, there was usually a really old, rusty, old penny that could never have been used anywhere.

I'm surprised it didn't make me clean my teeth more!

GazChap

i had a really sweet tooth and i asked my mum when it would fall out...

saza bob

My step-dad told my sister that everytime she learnt something a crinkle was made on her brain. She belevied him and went and asked the science teacher.

Kimbo

My mum always told me not to put my toenail clippings in the bin as a Witch Doctor could use them to make spells over me. To this day I flush the clippings down the loo!

Nush

My primary school teacher told me that if i didn't cut my finger nails feathers would sprout from my finger tips.

alex lovett

Someone in my family told me that old peoples wrinkles on their hands were due to getting them caught in the hand rails on early escalators. I still almost believe it now.

Mark (embrassed) H.

I used to believe that only men could be left handed -and I only found out that women could be when I got to university (at eighteen years old!)

John

I used to think that when a man came it was the wax coming off his penis. My older cousin used to tell me that a man could have babies as soon as he could get an erection. Imagine my fright when my wee brother had one when he was 2 months old

Pauline

I used to believe that if the wind changed when you were pulling your face that you would stick like that

Farino

I believed that I had a fake right big toe, having lost my real one in the plug holder (thanks Helen!)

Mike