Strange things you thought as a child

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I used to think there was 100 pennies squashed up into a pound.

I didn't know that "bejesus" was a word and assumed it was "big jesus," so I thought that if someone scared you a bit you had to say, "You scared the Jesus out of me," and if someone scared you a lot you had to say, "You scared the big Jesus out of me!"

That thunder was the sound of giant clowns fighting in the sky

@DestinysGrandchild I'm sure I once read an article about people who do that. It has a name, but can't remember what it is!

I thought St Pancras (like the station) was called St Pancreas (like the body part).

Aged about 7 my dad had the news on and I heard 'guerrillas fighting in Angola'. I excitedly looked up from my lego but was disappointed to see soldiers running around and not a fight between two gorillas.

I wondered how people could sell their car boots.

I thought all babies were born by cesarean section (I didn't know about vaginas, despite having one 😳)

I used to think that dogs were boys and cats were girls.

It is tho just there playing recordings

My friend told me that if you ate blue Bounty bars it would rain and if you ate red Bounty bars it would be hot, so I started eating red Bounty bars (dark chocolate) even though I preferred the blue ones (milk chocolate)!

If you are an Apple pip a tree grew in your belly thanks mum!

Also we had a radio that had holes in it snd I thought there was a little man inside talking so I used to poke a needle in there to see if he would squeak. I know odd child

I though the double yellow lines on the road where to ride your bike it. I used to cycle really slowly making sure I kept in the middle of the two yellow lines.

I thought that when people were "trying for a baby" it meant they were wishing really hard for a baby during sex, or they were shagging really vigorously, and the harder you wished/shagged the harder you "tried" for a baby.

@DavesSpareDeckChair I love that🤣🤣🤣

I used to think that when the clouds moved across the sky that was the world turning round.

To get a baby
A lady swallowed a pink pill or blue pill and got a girl or boy !!
I still thought this at 11 ...I was born in 1968

I’m getting distinct Matrix vibes with this one🤣

The past (the olden days) was in black and white, because colour hadn't been invented yet.

That people worked in little cabins under the ground beneath street lights and would turn them off and on to a set schedule.
I think I'd confused mining, old fashion lamp men/women and underground cold war style bunkers. We went to a lot of history sites as a child so I obviously meshed a lot of photos I'd seen into a scenario that made sense to me!

I believed that when the ice cream man came around in winter he sold soup instead of ice cream.

That is a great business idea!

Isn’t there??

I thought if you had sex twice in the same night you got twins, 3 times = triplets and so on.

I spent hours trying to think of things both old and young people touched, that they could "catch" cancer from. I was convinced it was coins but no one would listen to an 8 year old!

That banks kept everyone's money in little individual cubbyholes.