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16 Blatant Lies You Were Told, And Believed, Well Before You Turned 16

From Santa Clause... to the tooth fairy... here are a few lies many children including myself believed in.

Jordon Seig

Jun 24, 2019

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16 Blatant Lies You Were Told, And Believed, Well Before You Turned 16

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1. Santa Clause was real and so were his elves but the elves were hideous

The elves were little creatures that looked more like Dobby from Hairy Potter than the one in Elf.

2. If you eat watermelon seeds, a watermelon will grow in your stomach.

I think every child at one point believed they could grow a watermelon in their belly.

3. Turning on the light in the car was illegal

Here come the parents screaming at their children because the light was going to make them wreck or the cops would pull them over.

4. If you swallow your gum, it will stay in your stomach forever

I would cry every time I swallowed gum.

5. Marshmallows are made out of pure animal fat

Thanks to my older brother who made me believe that the white fat off of steak and other meats is what marshmallows are made out of.

6. Sitting to close to the television will destroy your eyesight and you will become blind.

My parents still say this to my younger siblings.

7. If you chew tobacco your face will become distorted

Chewing tobacco can lead to mouth and jaw cancer and can distort your face however, your entire face doesn't turn upside down as I thought.

8. If you touch a toad, you will get warts

This is not true but make sure you wash your hands after touching toads.

9. Cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis

When I developed arthritis and my mom would tell me it will make it worse, I shrugged and kept doing it.

10. Stuffed animals and mannequins come to life when you aren’t looking

Imagine seeing headless mannequins running towards you in the middle of the night.

11. Step on a crack and you’ll break your mother’s back

Whenever I was mad at my mom, I would purposely step on the cracks.

12. If a guy is mean to you it means he likes you

Yeah stop teaching girls this.

13. The moon followed me everywhere I went so it was my friend

Talking to the moon made me feel loved and then I realized it had no cognitive function.

14. I would only catch a fish if I talked to the worm before putting in on a hook

Imagine watching a child talk to a worm

15. If you punched a woman’s breast it wouldn’t grow for three years

Looking back I think we said this as an excuse to punch out friends.

16. Alligators lived in the sewers

I mean in a lot of cartoons you see alligators in the sewers so it was safe to assume it was real.

What all lies did you believe in as a child?

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16 Blatant Lies You Were Told, And Believed, Well Before You Turned 16

From Santa Clause... to the tooth fairy... here are a few lies many children including myself believed in.

In This Article:

1. Santa Clause was real and so were his elves but the elves were hideous

2. If you eat watermelon seeds, a watermelon will grow in your stomach.

3. Turning on the light in the car was illegal

4. If you swallow your gum, it will stay in your stomach forever

5. Marshmallows are made out of pure animal fat

6. Sitting to close to the television will destroy your eyesight and you will become blind.

7. If you chew tobacco your face will become distorted

8. If you touch a toad, you will get warts

9. Cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis

10. Stuffed animals and mannequins come to life when you aren’t looking

11. Step on a crack and you’ll break your mother’s back

12. If a guy is mean to you it means he likes you

13. The moon followed me everywhere I went so it was my friend

14. I would only catch a fish if I talked to the worm before putting in on a hook

15. If you punched a woman’s breast it wouldn’t grow for three years

16. Alligators lived in the sewers

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

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4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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