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I thought the carpet cleaner on the vacuum was a "special pump". That's why it made that noise. At least that's what my dad told me.

Anon
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that blackouts were caused by evil monkey's turning off all the lights.

key
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When I was a wee tyke I actually believed that there were real tiny people in the radio making all that music and talking....now I just believe that they are living in my head, and telling me what to do....:-)

Lil Freaky Greek Girl
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We were studying birds (or something) at primary school when one rich kid had a computer (very new thing) and printed out some fact on a particular native species. For quite a few years I thought that he had asked the computer about it and the computer had just given him what it knew, because computers knew everything...
We've sort of come full circle with google...

cc
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My dad used to tell me there was a midget in the photo booth at the mall and he would work inside the booth to develop the pictures.

Ginger
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when i was 3, my aunt had these small ceramic pigs...one day she was off in the other room or something and i was looking inside the vcr...i decided the inside of a vcr was a farm and put the pigs inside

gus
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I used to beleve that if you turmrd off the NUM LOCK (i used the row of numbers above the letters)
on a computer, uyou would turn off the computer.

Anon
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I couldn't figure out how bombs worked. First I believed that planes could drop giant stones crushing whole cities. But I soon realised planes couldn't carry stones that size, and then thought they could drop a big fireball in the middle of a city, and then divide in to smaller fireballs rolling through all streets and burning everything up on its way. I must have been around 4

B
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I used to believe,there was a little person inside my Dad's box Brownie camera.

Sandra R
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When i was little i saw my mom typing on the computer really fast. I thought she was just hitting letters. So one day i decided to do it and i broke the key board!

Nicole
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A friend of ours, and his brother were once told by their dad that the tv remote didn't use batteries and instead had a pizo electric system in it, and were told that to make the remote work they had to shake it up and down.

After three months of this their dad replaced the batteries in front of them and they realised how stupid they were.


they weren't young, 22 and 20 :)

Much amused
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I used to think that my computer had a mind of its own. Whenever i ever was in a bad mood, my computer would strangeley enough run faster and download stuff faster, as if it were comforting me. Whenever i pushed my computer to much, it ould get angry and run slower and make me do worse in video games.

Stevensonbak
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i once convinced myself that when i watched tv, the whole screen dissapeared and a new one popped up whenever a show or commercial was over. to test this hypothesis i decided to put a huge sticker dead center on the tv screen....

gus
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I used to believe a nuclear bomb was powerful enough that it would actually split the world into tiny pieces that would float around the solar system. Needless to say, once I found out about its capabilities (less powerful than what I originally believed), nuclear attack has never really worried me as much as other people.

Naomi
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i used to think that i was a technopath like ryan walker from mech x4 one time i discovered i could lock and unlock a car by staring at its door handle i could also control the car stereos volume through thoughts and even change the stereos channel by moving my hand in the air and this one time i activated an animatronic skeleton through staring later my technopathy stopped working till i was 17 i even thought that the government would take me away from my house not for experimentation but rather to make me pilot a giant robot hidden in a secret government base re engineered or built from alien technology that can only be piloted by someone with my power kinda like mechx4 maybe the government are building giant robot mechsuits from otherworldly technology hiding them in secret government areas and recruiting technokinetic people to fight interdimensional monsters but ive i also heard other requirements for being a mech pilot in mechx4 which i mentioned earlier you have to be a technopath but in shows like rahxephon you have to have strange alien markings for you to pilot a mech

yosef
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I once had a cheap radio and a pair of walkie-talkies, and somehow managed to convince myself that if I touched the radio aerial with the walkie-talkie aerial, I could transmit on the same frequency as the radio station, and shout over the top of the presenter's voice at everyone who was currently listening to that station. Something to do with frequencies and tuning forks at school, probably. *Sigh* If only it was that simple...

Gav
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I used to think if you clicked on things on the computer (pictures, ect) that it would hurt them, so when I had a cat screensaver, I accidentially clicked it's eye- and promptly started crying, " Oh no- I hurt the kitties eye!"

Molly
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I used to think that a CD burner would literally burn the CD and when my dad bought one I asked "why don't you just use the fireplace?"

phiromaniac
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I used to believe that if I played Super Mario on SNES hard enough, I'd get a special colored Yoshi :(

M
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I used to believe that Power Plant about thirty miles from my house was a cloud factory due to the cooling towers putting forth huge amounts of white steam.

Anon
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