12 Of The Most Ridiculous Lies We All Believed As Kids

If there’s anything true about childhood it’s that is was full of lies. I’m not sure where these rumours originated but somehow, completely fictitious claims were accepted as true.

As kids we were all gullible fools but it’s definitely enjoyable to look back on our own naivety. Here are 12 of the most ridiculous lies most of us were led to believe in childhood.

1. If you eat the seed of the fruit, a tree will grow inside you

2. Possibly the biggest disappointment of all time

3. If you rubbed 2 of these together and left them in the fridge overnight, they’d have a baby

4. That ‘cooties’ were a real thing

5. Swallow chewing gum and it’ll wrap around your insides

6. Algebra will be useful later in life

7. Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis

8. Eating spinach will turn you into Popeye

9. If you cross your eyes, they’ll get stuck that way forever

10. Your school was either a hospital or cemetery before and it’s now haunted

11. Bloody Mary

12. Walking over three drains or on a crack is bad luck

So many lies, childhood was quite ridden with them. Like these 11 other facts you learn when your younger that are completely untrue – have any of your own? Let us know with a comment.