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What lies/myths were you told as a child?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Bread crusts make your hair curly?
Swallowing an apple seed will make a tree grow in your stomach?
Or more original ones?
For example I was told when really little that the pith around citrus fruits was fish (I've always hated fish). To this day I can't eat a satsuma without painstakingly peeling off every bit of pith.
I was also told that putting my fingers in a bowling ball right as it comes up the rack would cut my fingers off 
My siblings liked to mess with me... |
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By *ack688Man
over a year ago
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My dad once told me that CID stood for ‘coppers in disguise’, which I guess would have been fine if coincidentally it hadn’t come up as a question in school not long afterwards and I blurted out to the whole class |
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I wish my family told me uplifting ones like that 
Say it ain't so!