People are sharing the dumbest things they once believed – 17 absolute doozies

A Redditor named u/lilCRONOS asked a good question.

What is the dumbest thing someone made you believe to be true that you later found out it isn’t?

We’ve all believed stupid things – if you swallow a pip it’ll grow in your stomach, mountain goats have two legs longer on one side, Boris Johnson had an oven-ready deal. Maybe not that last one.

We picked some of the best answers, but it’s worth having a look at the full thread.

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falaffels
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My dad would tell me he can make red lights turn green just by pressing the garage door opener. I didn’t believe him but every time he did it, it worked. Still didn’t believe him but I couldn’t figure out how he was doing it.

When I got older and learned to drive, I realized he was just looking at the other lights in the intersection to time out when to press the opener.
Tru-Queer

3.

That if you swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow inside your stomach.
123fofisix

4.

Told my wife the channel tunnel has a 2 mile middle part which is see through so you can watch the fish as you pass through. Completely forgot until about 5 years later when we used the tunnel and she was gutted she didn’t see any fish.
TheFlaccidChode

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My cousins told me that in the Blackpool Tower kids play area, the Jungle Gym I think it was called, that if you jumped in a specific spot in the ball pool you’d go through a trap door into a secret room. Spent the whole of the time we were in there on a school trip trying to find it and didn’t have time for anything else. Bastards.
MisterMatt91

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My dad told me it was illegal for kids to drink coffee and I didn’t question it until I was 16.
Neapolitandynomite

7.

LaundryMan2008
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My dad made me believe, that one of the bridges in our city gets pulled into a nearby tunnel when it rains in order to avoid it getting wet.
superpositionist

9.

As a kid, my father told me Tapioca was fish eggs.
Marcgvs