Our favourite 28 weird things people believed as children
20.
My uncle told me that every time you sneezed you lost 10 seconds off your life. Believed that till I was about 21
— Richie Thomas (@ohlort) August 5, 2017
21.
My dad told me when the i ice cream man played music it meant he had run out 🙁
— Katy Spicer-Eriksen (@KatySpicer1984) August 7, 2017
22.
Because both my grandmothers were called Maureen, I thought all grandmothers had the same name
— Celine Nic O (@ismiseleenie) August 5, 2017
23.
was told once that the inside of Bounty bars was mosquito eggs who’d then grow and breed in your stomach, believed it for years
— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) August 5, 2017
24.
That you would get pissed if you drank two cans of Club Shandy
— Stephen Burke (@Sburko81) August 5, 2017
25.
Sitting on the step gave you a cold in your kidneys
— Máire Ní Bhríain (@HellasQuinn) August 5, 2017
26.
My brother once told me badgers could throw stones at you, encountered one with my cousin once needless to say it was a little embarrassing
— Patrick Corbett (@Finishedatlast) August 5, 2017
27.
As a kid I believed dogs were boys and cats were girls and that everything before I was born was in black & white
— Garrulous (@JurassicArse) August 5, 2017
The best factually incorrect thing anyone believed as a kid was revealed by this chap.
https://twitter.com/jantalipinski/status/894126572327907328
And here’s the story in full.
