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.
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.
I’m seeing several posts that are startling evidence for the essential nature of proper sex education, lol.
Well, this was when I was like 6 or so; I can’t fault the school system.
I thought older girls went to bed one night then the next morning they had boobs
Slightly related: all dogs are bots and all cats are girls
all dogs are bots
That’s birds.
Sorry. All dogs are birds.
No silly, birds aren’t real /hj
Wonder how the world population would look like if this was true
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.
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?
I thought grownups got paid every day and “pay day” was just a special day when you got more money.
Aww that’s adorable 🤣
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…
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…
I’m surprised an older sibling was something you wanted, usually you want to be the oldest.
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
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.
The alphabet is in that order because of the song.
Wait a minute…
TIL; wolverine is an actual fuckin’ animal!!!
I hope you’re about 25 because this is basically how I found out lol
My son was PISSED when I explained how his older sister would, in fact, always be older. He was sure he’d catch up.
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.
Similar to this: I thought that deer was the male and roe was the female of the same species.
exactly what I used to think!
Depends on your definition of species. Sheep and goats are closely related enough to mate and produce offspring
Can’t wait to get some geep milk
I used to tell my kids that the ice cream truck only plays music when they are out of ice cream. My kids are older now and know the truth but think of all of the money I saved.
That’s brilliant!
Ha! I did the same thing. Now they’re teenagers and mock me.
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.
That adult humans knew what they were doing and had things in hand.
I turn 40 in March and still have no idea what I’m doing. I just make it up as I go.
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.
… nose tissues? You mean, just regular tissues? Did your dad lie to you about tissues too??
As opposed to, you know, butt tissues 😂
Haha this is such a funny lie.
I thought CEOs worked super hard
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there are people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, etc who still believe this
That trees create wind. Every time their branches start moving the wind starts to blow at the same time.
Also I thought that wind turbines are amusement park attractions where people are put inside the blades.Boy, the trees are really sneezing today.
I believed until I was 8 or so that beans were a type of meat. When I learned the truth, I had an argument with my older brother with me saying something along the line, “You’re gonna feel real dumb when Mom says I’m right.”
I’ll admit to thinking this too
and beingwhen I was a little bit older than 8, so you can feel better now.I am going to say this is like 30% accurate. Mushroom are pretty much actually meat. Shellfish are actually plants despite being made of meat.
I get what you are saying but you were on to something.
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…
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.
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.
That’s more of a “believing lies told my adults around you” case.
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.
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
Isn’t AC quite effective at spreading germs though?
That’s true as well but you can’t store drugs at 35°C. Good ventilation and regular disinfection takes care of the germs.
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.
That me parents didn’t have parents growing up. It somehow never dawned on me until I was like 7 that my grandparents were their parents, despite knowing my grandparents all my life.
I remember asking my dad if the Earth ever got heavier besides when meteors landed and babies were born.
I couldn’t comprehend that babies were made out of food. I thought they just came from nothing.
“babies were made of food” gave me a chuckle! a bit of a shower thought moment :)
Yup, and food is made almost entirely out of carbon dioxide and water.
Uh, pretty sure we add the oxygen when we eat the food.
Plants eat CO2
Yeah, so the plants turn carbon dioxide and water into cellulose and water mostly, herbivores digest the cellulose into protein and carbohydrates we can eat, we eat them and turn that protein and carbohydrates into our bodies and energy using oxygen, back into carbon dioxide and water and expel it. It’s the carbon cycle.
Apart from the babies thing, that’s still a very interesting question. I bet someone knows the answer, but I wonder if the weight of the earth increases or decreases on average. I’d have to guess it’s a net increase from picking up stuff as we move through space, which probably dwarfs the mass of stuff we’ve sent out (especially if you don’t count satellites since they’re more or less still tied to earth). I don’t think there’s anything like natural ejections of matter from earth either.
Additional external mass is additional mass. shrug
Yes, the mass has been increasing: meteors bombarding the earth daily , most burn up but some debris must survive, also plants make their food out of pretty much the definition of nothing, massless particles that makes its way up the food chain. Everything is energy.
Plants make their food from matter that’s already here on Earth. They take CO2 and water and use the sun’s energy to turn them into sugar. They don’t just get it from nothing.
Yes, the mass has been increasing: meteors bombarding the earth daily
It can’t really be said there is a net-gain in mass (in fact most websites seem to estimate a net loss).
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/297622/is-the-earth-gaining-or-losing-mass-over-time
also plants make their food out of pretty much the definition of nothing, massless particles that makes its way up the food chain
I don’t know what you mean by «massless particles», but plants do not make food out of “the definition of nothing”. Photosynthesis is a chemical process and like any other chemical process due to the law of conservation of mass (disregarding mass-energy equivalence), the mass of the reagents is the same as the mass of the products. The sugars produced during photosynthesis weren’t just produced with light as input. Light is the energy source that fuels the reaction in the light dependent of phase of photosynthesis, which has water as input, whose products (besides oxygen molecules which are a “useless” byproduct of the reaction) are used to produce the sugars in the non-light dependent phase which also takes carbon dioxide as input (there are obviously more substances involved in the reaction but they are “reused” between the two phases).
So, the mass of the “food” of the plant is in reality obtained from water and carbon dioxide, not out of “nothingness”.
If I recall correctly, it decreases. We lose more weight of atmospheric gas than we gain weight of meteorite material.
couldn’t comprehend that babies were made out of food
They … arent made out of food …
Their mass is derived from matter ingested by the mother.
I mean, we’re all made of star stuff, but in the local sense, mothers can turn the food they eat into babies.
Actors have to be married to kiss on screen
I thought deaths on screen were real and that people volunteered to die to create the production and wondered why in the world someone would die just to make a movie.
Sean Bean must have been very confusing for you.
