Childhood Facts That Turned Out To Be Complete B.S. Remember Any Of These?

We hear all kinds of things as kids that we tend to believe, like that swallowing watermelon seeds can make a watermelon grow in your stomach. It’s not until you grow up that you realize some of what you thought was true is actually a load of B.S. What did you learn in elementary school that turned out to be false/ a lie when you reached adulthood?

More than 14-thousand comments have come in to Reddit so far and these are some of the best:

• “That cracking your fingers gives you arthritis.”
• “That people would be offering me free drugs all the time.”
• “That blood is blue before it touches air.”
• “That you can’t use your notes in ‘real life.’ WTF does that even mean? I’m always looking at my notes when I do my job.”
• “If someone is picking on you, that means they like you.”
• “That all my high school teachers and my college professors would require me to write in cursive.”
• “This will go down on your permanent record.”
• “If you touch a baby duck, it’s mother will reject it.”
• "That when bears hibernate, it's one really, really long nap. Apparently bears just nap a lot in the winter, and it's not a three-month mega-nap.”
• “That I wouldn’t have a calculator in my pocket.”
• “That my middle school grades matter and would follow me through high school.”
• “That tastebud zones are real.”
• “That if I went to college I would get a good job and be able to buy a big house with a pool.”
• “That my face was gonna get stuck like this 🤪.”
• “We had a teacher tell us that we only had so many uses before our vocal cords stopped working, so wasting it small-talking during class would cause us to go mute in our 30s.”
• “That being an astronaut was a plausible career option. It's way harder than they sell it.”
• “That cheaters never win in the end; only good people succeed.”
• And finally, "Turning on the light in the car is illegal.”
• Remember any of these? What are your childhood memories of "Fact turned Fake?'