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That the Gulf War was in the Gulf of Mexico. It was the only one I knew!

I always thought cigarettes contain tar, as in the substance asphalt on the road is made from. It always felt weird to me, why would they put it in the cigarettes but I figured maybe they need it so the tobacco doesn't fall out or something.

when i was a child, i was told that i would get worms if i ate raw brown sugar. i believed this for quite some time at least until i was 12.

Old people were always old

That there was a disembodied head that lived in the toilet at night.

That god(s) exist(s).

That all large salty bodies of water were called "the mediterranean sea."

When I was six years old or so, my sister called me a "cosweb" and told me it was the worst thing ever. I completely believed her for a long time.

That, despite my feelings and emotions at the time, I would never be a girl. So, that was a fucking lie.

Trees make wind because whenever there was wind, they moved.

I thought the moon had a face. Like, as a kid, I would look at the moon and in my mind the craters formed what clearly seemed as two eyes and a mouth.

That I could dig to China

That the Mormon god was totally real

You can accomplish anything if you put your mind to it and try hard enough.

Hiccups mean youre growing.

Thanks parents.

I thought chocolate was a color

That if we didn't have enough money we could just go to the ATM and get more.

Also, when I was very young, I apparently spent too long in the toilet once and one of my parents (don't recall which) asked me if I'd fallen down the hole.
It took me shitting myself at school months later for them to find out that I'd been terrified of falling into the toilet (and avoiding using it as much and for as long as I could, or, in that particular occasion, longer) since that day.
(I was small but not that small, obviously, but kids can be surprisingly dumb for how surprisingly smart they are.)

That Africa was largely unexplored by humans and mostly unpopulated

That Pluto is a planet.

That someday I would be free from the social trappings that invade our personal lives.

Einstein said that if you move close to the speed of light, you'll go forward in time. Therefore, I thought, if you go backwards at close to the speed of light, you'll go backwards in time.