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That Ron Livingston and Kyle Chandler were the same person.

I thought for a loooong time that hushpuppies were considered seafood.

@KatieBklyn: that's what I'm saying!!!

I thought a "drug free zone" was where you went to get free drugs. I was confused of why it was always at my schools.

I was like 7 at the time.

@LBee: I'm not saying I would willingly swim down and touch a drain

That George clooney was sooooo gross. Now I get it, even if he's old.

Oh man, I remember so many of these, lol.

Looking out the bedroom window at night-I thought people could see me! It scared me to look out!

I thought gay men had 'bum sex' by rubbing their bums together.

Yurp.

@Mrs. Jump Rope: I thought similarly about the drug free zones as if the drug dealers and users were lurking just on the other side of the sidewalk. I never saw a druggie though.

I believed my brother knew my name when he was still in the womb. My mom had Hi, Lemon typed on her ultra sound photo of him.

That saying Blood Mary and Candyman and all of those scary things in a mirror could cause imminent death. I don't believe it as much, but certainly am not willing to test it just in case.

My parents always told me that tunnels we drive through go underwater. So I thought that the entire tunnel was submerged in water so that if I opened my window, water would start pouring in. I don't know why I never thought to ask why there wasn't a splash when we went INTO the water... =\

I also wondered about the turn signal in the car. "How does the car know when you're going to turn??" I asked my parents. I don't know why they never gave me a straight answer! Maybe they just enjoyed my ignorance...?

@My Only Sunshine: lol unicorns make people hapoy, I bet you she is a very positive person

Oh man, my parents fed me so many I truly believed! I was crushed when I discovered that when I had hiccups I wasn't growing, because I get VERY excited every time I hiccuped.

I also thought the stork brought babies. That was kind of a bummer once I found out the truth. I also have no idea why I bought into this theory because my mom raised cocker spaniels and I watched many a live puppy birth.

I was convinced for a time that if I made a frowny face it would get stuck that way because my older sister beat that into my head when I was little.

Oh man I wish I could think of more! The only one I can really think of is that I (for some reason) thought that the way a woman got pregnant was she ate a seed. Like a watermelon seed or an orange seed. So I was always really careful not to eat seeds. lol.

I used to think the way people had babies was that you fell asleep and when you woke up, the dr would put a little wrapped up baby in your arms. I blame this misconception on watching soap operas with my mom when I was little. It always happened like that on tv when I was little.

I also believed all wildlife had rabies and if you could touch an animal it was very sick. I think this was a clever way my parents kept us kids from touching baby birds, etc. I actually believed this until college. On campus the squirrels were nearly domesticated and would sit at people's feet begging for food. I once expressed that it was so scary. Don't those students know squirrels like that are rabid and they will catch it if you get too close? And my roommate was like what the hell? That is not how it works! But I appreciate the lie my parents told because no animals were ever tormented by us kids and I never got rabies. Win/win.

Oh man, I used to believe so many of these! I think the big one, is I used to think that if someone died in a movie, that the actor died for real. I even thought that they would film the whole thing and save the death scenes for last and you'd have to just make sure everything went perfectly, because otherwise you'd have to film the whole movie over again with a different actor - and wouldn't it be so sad if someone died for the movie, and didn't actually get to be in it in the end. I don't know how I came up with so many explanations and didn't just think "or maybe they don't really die"

Oh I thought of another one. This is really embarrassing and I can't believe I'm admitting it.

But I thought Ulysses S Grant was black. When we were in third grade we had to do a book report about someone in the Civil War and draw a picture of them to decorate the hall outside our classroom. So one of classmates did Ulysses S Grant and colored him to look like him. So I went a long time (like a LONG TIME) thinking Grant was black and we were so progressive to have a black president right after the Civil War.

that car pools were cars with pools in them!

@Shutterbug: now i'm really going to blow your mind. It isn't end trails. It is entrails

@Shutterbug: lol! I actually just thought of a similar thing. I always thought the expression was "Up and Adam". Like... until I met my husband in my 20s and we were living together. One morning I was whining about getting out of bed and he said "Up and Adam" and I was like... who the fuck is Adam and why do I want to be him leave me alooooneee.

And then my husband burst out laughing and explained that it isn't "up and Adam" it is "up and at (th)em"!! lol

I used to think that the only cows were dairy cows. Black and white moo cows from CA. When i moved to the midwest, i was shocked to learn that cows could, in fact, NOT be black and white.

@My Only Sunshine: I heard this one too! Someone else on it thought that the Neilson families who are used to calculate neilson tv ratings all were named Neilson.

My brother convinced me tapioca pudding was made with fish eyes. I think it was so he could eat it without me taking any.

We also tricked my younger sister into thinking she was hatched from an egg, not born. Her nickname was "bird" (can't remember where that started, i think because she ate like a bird when she was a baby) but she asked why we called her bird and we said it was because she was hatched like a bird. From a pink egg with purple spots. She believed it for a long long time.