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When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pretty common belief among stupid 7-year-olds, I think; humans couldn't see colour up to the mid-60s.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I believed this. You are the first person I've ever heard whose had this same belief.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I used to think a car direction indicator was a GPS guiding system, and not manually operated.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

The semaphore homunculus lived in the stop lights at intersections.

In my Superman onesie (w/ cape), I could fly, but was never brave enough to launch from a high enough step on the stairs. I knew I was flying, but...

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

I thought those crosses or flowers on the side of the road were where they buried the person who died in an accident.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

That there were little gnomes inside the doors of the cars and that they were in charge of raising and lowering the windows, especially in the automatic cars.

[โ€“] andrew_bidlaw 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I believed I was an adopted alien from outer space before I realised my face is like my father's but prettier.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thats a sentence I never heard and believe noone has written it ever on the internet

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] Mandy 10 points 4 days ago

Can I'll cheat a little and use my teen years.
When let's plays where the new hot thing, I thought a blind let's play literally meant, eyes closed

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

That tv programming would pause when I turned the TV off.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

rice turned water into soil

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Freddy Krueger was two people. I thought it was like Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. I thought it was Dr. Krueger and Freddy was the monster he created. When I saw the movie I was like where's his creator, the one that brought him to life?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

I used to greet clothing store mannequins and thought that people who didn't were very rude.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Cthulhu is a Hindu god

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