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If you took a golf ball apart you'd die instantly if you touched the liquid center.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Aug 2019
#3
I heard something similar, about golf ball interiors being toxic/dangerous...
RockRaven
Aug 2019
#38
This was actually partly true. Some golf balls had a center that would explode if you cut into it.
dameatball
Aug 2019
#88
Is it not true that somebody did? Coulda swore that was a real story lol (nt)
mr_lebowski
Aug 2019
#9
She probably just overestimated your ability to grasp metaphors as a small child ;) (nt)
mr_lebowski
Aug 2019
#11
I though Orientar was a place too. I also thought mersidotesndoesydotesnlittllamsytivy
applegrove
Aug 2019
#29
On a drive across the country, I couldn't figure out how musicians kept moving radio stations!!
flor-de-jasmim
Aug 2019
#16
When REALLY little I thought that the people were inside the TV like a puppet show ...
mr_lebowski
Aug 2019
#18
That when the science teacher rolled mercury in your hand everything was cool with that.
LakeArenal
Aug 2019
#31
Toy store in our town sold mercury to kids. Guy had a jar on the counter he'd dip it from.
Midnight Writer
Aug 2019
#60
My best friend insisted that the ghost of Benjamin Franklin lived down the street from him.
Tommy_Carcetti
Aug 2019
#59
As a kid with a poor sense of direction I believed our car knew where we needed to go.
Gidney N Cloyd
Aug 2019
#36
That chewing gum was indigestible and stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it
RockRaven
Aug 2019
#41
When I was about 3 years old, I remember going down to Florida for the first time.
Tommy_Carcetti
Aug 2019
#42
The same way they move in the air, only slower - with engine thrust.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Aug 2019
#77
I think you are to be forgiven, as a child, not understanding these subtleties. It's certainly news
LAS14
Aug 2019
#95
1) that T.B. had something to do with the television 2) that the iron curtain hung somewhere between
emmaverybo
Aug 2019
#53
Dragonflies could sew your lips together...we called them darning needles...
asiliveandbreathe
Aug 2019
#61
That the industrial vacuum at the car wash was going to suck me out of the back seat.
marked50
Aug 2019
#62
My sons believed (because Mama told 'em so) that their nose would wiggle
Totally Tunsie
Aug 2019
#75
I thought the sun dropped down every night behind the mountains (I live in Los Angeles)
John Fante
Aug 2019
#82
When I was very young, my mom told me that if was bad, the gypsies would take me away.
OilemFirchen
Aug 2019
#91
I was convinced our church minister was the same guy who played Capt Binghamton on McHale's Navy.
Gidney N Cloyd
Aug 2019
#98
If you don't eat your vegetables they come back and night and dance at the foot of your bed.
Laffy Kat
Aug 2019
#109