I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.

  • @TokenBoomer
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    I thought adults actually knew what the hell they were doing.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce
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    I thought that when the clerk at the checkout asked, “would you like cash back?” That you could say yes and they would just give you cash straight out of the register for nothing lol.

    I figured that most people were very honest and didn’t need the money, so they would just say no thanks and leave it in the register for somebody who really did need it.

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      Similarly, I thought one could get more money by asking for change. You give one bill, you get more bills and coins in return, it’s gotta be more, right?

    • @ch00f
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      I thought grownups got paid every day and “pay day” was just a special day when you got more money.

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    So many things…

    I didn’t understand how lie detectors were supposed to work so I thought you could hook someone up and ask something like “does god exist” and you’d be able to get answers to all of life’s big mysteries.

    I thought there was a left and right sock

    I thought wolverines were mythical creatures

    I thought if I tried hard enough I could somehow become older than my older brother like it was just a title or something

    Thanks to DARE any time I saw a skittle with the S missing I thought it was drugs even in a newly opened package

    I could go on…

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      I wanted an older sibling as a child and I remember trying to convince my parents they should have another baby. In my mind, if I just waited (my age +1) years, I’d then have an older sibling. It never ocurred to me that I would also age during that time…

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          I was an only child and I just wanted someone cool to play with me who I could look up to. Also all my older cousins picked on me and I wanted defence lol

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      181 year ago

      If your feet are big enough, left and right socks are indeed a thing

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        31 year ago

        My feet are normalish (well, far too wide but normal length) and my running socks are left and right.

        • @SpaceNoodle
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          Wide is big. I’d argue that the width is the more relevant dimension.

    • Dark Arc
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      Your comment about your brother reminds me that in kindergarten I thought that the line order (alphabetical) had something to do with status. My last name starts with C so I was pretty close to the front, but I had a friend with an A for a last name, so I really wanted to move up.

      I told no one of this of course until long after I’d grasped how alphabetical ordering worked myself.

    • gilgameth
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      TIL; wolverine is an actual fuckin’ animal!!!

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    I remember thinking that women gave birth to girls and men gave birth to boys, and being really worried because I (as a guy) didn’t want to give birth.

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    I was trying to figure out what caused wind. I noticed the leaves moving when the wind blew, and I knew that a fan (handheld) also moved wind. So it stood to reason that trees moved causing the leaves to move which caused the wind. And naturally it must be earthquakes that caused the tree to love. And then I thought, we’ll there must be a master tree that started the wind, and the most “logical” place for that tree would be the North Pole.

    So, that there was a tree on the North Pole that caused all the wind.

    • @ZoopZeZoop
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      261 year ago

      Pretty sure that could be the basis for a series of children’s novels that were eventually adapted into a trilogy (or more) of movies.

      • @chillhelm
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        It’s a trilogy of children’s books, where the first two get a movie each and the last book is split into 2.

    • radix
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      121 year ago

      I like your thought process. You might be on to something…

    • @[email protected]
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      Except for the North Pole, I had the exact same idea. I got to the idea of a single tree controlling things then got my hands on a Red Ryder Carbine-action 200-shot Range Model Air Rifle and forgot about trees.

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    That sheep and goats were same species. I thought sheep were the girl versions and goats were the boys, like hens and roosters.

    Wasn’t until well into my 20s that I finally ran into something that put the spotlight on it… IIRC it was some Farmville type of videogame, which included males and females of both sheep and goats. To me, that stood out the same way a “female bull” or “male cow” would have, so I had a little chuckle at the obvious ‘oversight’. Realized shortly after that I was, in fact, a fucking idiot.

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    751 year ago

    My dad told me that walnuts were owl eggs.

    He got in trouble when I stole all the walnuts in the house and wrapped them in nose tissues to keep them warm so they would hatch and I would have baby owls.

    • @Jakdracula
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      Ha! I did the same thing. Now they’re teenagers and mock me.

    • @spiffy_spaceman
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      My in-laws told my wife that it was just the “music truck”. She had no idea it sold ice cream until she was in high school.

    • Hah! You obviously didn’t learn the value of sending your kids on a wells race across the neighborhood to catch a guy in a truck. If you’re lucky, that’s a goods 20 minutes of peace! Worth every penny.

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      I’m relieved they eventually overcame your fatal deception

  • @[email protected]
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    601 year ago

    I thought black and what television was black and white because history happened in black and white. I suppose that means life in colour happened after the invention of colour tv

      • @JohnObvious
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        631 year ago

        One of my favorite Calvin and Hobbies about this topic.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        171 year ago

        Tangentially related… The creation of the blue LED was so revolutionary, and took so much effort and science to make, that the guy who discovered how to make blue LEDs got a nobel prize.

    • Io Sapsai 🌱
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      I thought that if enough time passed old photos would turn black and white like how they were b&w in the 80s and turned colour in the 90s.

      • @Hobo
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        Sucker! I have a whole 6 months to figure it all out before I turn 40. I’m a terrible procrastinator so I’ll probably just wait until the night before to start really working on it though.

  • @arby
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    When I was five or six, I think I must have dreamed that my dad could turn his head around 360 degrees. A few days later I was in the car with my Dad and asked him if he could really turn his head around. He responded “not now, I’m driving.” I took that as a yes. It was years before I realized the truth…

    • @nittiyh
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      I laughed so hard 😂 not even questioning wth you’re talking about, just going straight for the worldview altering statement. I can only wish I had that much wit and humor.

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    Grew up on a dairy goat farm. I noticed we ate most of the boys and kept all the girls.

    I was so scared; I had to ask my mom which one of me and my brothers were they gonna keep.

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    If you were cold then you would catch a cold.

    You had to wait an hour after eating because if you swam after eating then you would sink.

    Carrots will allow me to see in the dark if I eat enough of them.

    If you did a bad thing then the universe would make a bad thing happen to you.

    If you dropped food on the ground and picked it up quick enough it didn’t have germs.

    • @caesar_salad83
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      271 year ago

      That’s more of a “believing lies told my adults around you” case.

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      Carrots will allow me to see in the dark if I eat enough of them.

      This was (and is) a very successful British WWII misinformation campaign. The Brits didn’t want it known that their aircraft had radar - which allowed them to find enemy aircraft at night. So they embellished carrots’ benefit on night vision to cover up their technological advantage.

      It worked. Don’t feel bad for believing it. Everyone believed it.

    • Io Sapsai 🌱
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      If you were cold then you would catch a cold.

      There is a startling amount of people here (most people I know) that believe this. I work in healthcare and we constantly have arguments about the AC in summer for that exact reason. Yeah cold weather can make it easier to catch a cold but it’s interesting to see how many people believe that you need to get warm to avoid catching a cold.

      Carrots will allow me to see in the dark if I eat enough of them.

      Partially true. If you’re vitamin A deficient, your night vision worsens and carrots can help with that. But you won’t get Minecraft night vision

      • daddyjones
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        Isn’t AC quite effective at spreading germs though?

        • Io Sapsai 🌱
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          That’s true as well but you can’t store drugs at 35°C. Good ventilation and regular disinfection takes care of the germs.

        • @[email protected]
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          An ac system with dirty humidifier portions or stagnant water from the condensate system being plugged can start growing things like mold in the wet filthy areas and cause legionnaires disease or other health issues.

          A properly functioning ac system just cools and dries the air.

          There is a belief that going from hot and humid summer air to cold and dry ac air and back, constantly all day long, can make you sick.

          I have no idea if that is true.

          A central hvac system could potentially move particles of infectious materials from one room to another but whether that would make someone sick is debatable due to how short lived virus particles are and other factors.

          Some commercial systems utilize ultra violet sections and hepa filters to kill and stop airborne contaminants and allergens.

      • @[email protected]
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        The carrot thing came out of world war ii propaganda which was intended to keep radar gunsites secret.

      • @[email protected]
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        It didn’t help me be better at that age because I lacked the forward thinking ability to weighthe consequences. It did make me scared that something bad was going to happen after I’d done something bad. Which is kind of good I guess.

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      99% of Indians still believe the first one. They also believe that if you don’t immediately dry your hair right after a shower you’ll catch a cold. Sneezing and coughing without covering your mouth though? That’s ok.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      The world believed carrots made you have better vision. It is an interesting story and worth looking into.

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    I thought cats were female and dogs were male. Can you tell I didn’t have pets growing up?

    • JokeDeity
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      I know a disturbingly high number of adults over 40 that refer to every dog as he/him and every cat as she/her no matter how many thousands of times they are corrected on it.

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        Have you been around girls and boys. This makes perfect sense. I think the science might be wrong.