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When I was young and I first heard the term "box your ears" I always imagined someone taking a hole punch to someones earlobes and punching a hole through them. To this day, I still do not understand this term.

Amanda

I challenged my little brother to bite his ear. After twisting his head and whirling around in circles for ceaseless hours, he still remained convinced that he would eventually nibble that ear.

Nibbles

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

dej

My mum told me that if I didn't wash my ears then potatoes would grow in the dirt.

Dipsy

I used to believe even when I was in 8th grade{now I am in highschool} that as we grow, our heart,liver,intestines grow and one day I also asked my teacher that why ppl get the disorders like high blood pressure though there heart grows according to their body size? And at that time the whole class was laughing {except me} for 13 minutes and I am serious!

Madhura

i thought that scince "itch" rhymes with "which" the 2 were connectd. I always imagined a little pack of witches, on brooms, dressed in black, about half a millimeter tall, would flyaround, and when they got tired, they would land on you, and you'd itch.

Steph(13

i used to believe that our buttocks are hollow and that all our internal organs i.e are stomach, liver, kidneys, lungs etc are placed there...now as a biology postgraduate i know better!!

chandni

i used to believe that snakes could come out of your butt if you didnt bathe for awhile

Ducki

I used to believe that I could live in a world without conflict with other human beings. But I have learned that conflict is a part of the human condition, that it cannot be escaped. One can only learn how to deal with conflict constructively. I also believed that little people lived in my stomach, and when I swallowed my food, it came down to them, and then they ate it.

John O'G.

Until I was eight, I believed that humans could grow new replacement teeth throughout their lifetime. I found out the truth when a relative told me to take "good care of this set". I now brush twice daily.

Ernz

When I was young, I saw some guys who were bodybuilders in the 80s and they had a lot of body hair. I heard my mom and some of my school teachers comment on them, saying, "Wow, look, they have a lot of muscles". I thought that "hair" only referred to the hair on top of your head, and that the word "muscles" was referring to their coincidental abundance of body hair. I asked them what "muscles" were, and they said that "muscles make you strong" and that I would get more muscles as I got older. I was with my Dad at the mall and saw a guy with a lot of body hair (not muscular though) and I said, "Dad, look- that guy has a lot of muscles!" and my Dad's feelings were hurt. He said, "Don't you think I have a lot of muscles?" he didn't have much body hair. I said, "I don't know." His feelings were hurt. One day, I grew a long hair on my arm and showed my Mom. I said, "Look at my big muscle!" and she laughed and said, "That's a hair!" and then I understood.

Pat

I used to believe that our bodies were hollow on the inside and that there was a big black crow that lived in our chest that was connect to chains. And everytime he move a chain that corresponded with a body part.

Brooke

As a kid I used to believe when a body part fell asleep it was growing. It took me a while to realize that if that were true I would be something like 10 feet tall.

Leah

When I' was a little boy, I fell while cycling and I broke my 2 front teeth.After this, I went
in emergencies .Since this moment, I used to believe than If my mother kissed me on my wound, I would heal.Now I think than what I was thinking before I was very stupid but I am less afraid of getting hurt.

Anon

When I was young ,I used to makes faces everyme .One day ly mother told me if i pull a face and the bell ring,i would be stuck with this face .After that i used to scare each hour to make a face .I believed that during a long time and one day my father pulled faces and i told him "Don't do that anymore you will be stuck".He laughet at me and explain me the thruth

Anon

My babysitters once told me that if I used Avon's Silicone Glove hand lotion, it would make my chest grow bigger. I used to cry and beg them not to make me put it on my dry chapped hands.

Katie S.

I once believed that if you made a funny face a trick wind will blow and your face stayed that way.

Adam

I was told that if you didn't wash behind your ears good, potatoes would start to grow!

Lisa G

If I pulled a face and the wind changed I would stay that way FOREVER!

Bear

When I was a child my mom used to threaten me that if I bite others they can revenge me by applying sandal on the bitten spot so that all my teeth would fall off. One day I was frightened a lot after biting my sister that I was closing my mouth all day in the fear of losing my teeth and from that day I never bit others.

Anandha Subha