32 of the Dumbest Things People Wholeheartedly Believed

‘I thought that hummingbirds didn’t have feet’
32 of the Dumbest Things People Wholeheartedly Believed

Sometimes, you hear a fact, and it goes directly into your memory banks, entirely unconfirmed. Maybe you’re young, maybe you’re busy, maybe it was mixed in with some other facts that were actually true. Whatever the case, that massive bit of misinformation is now sitting in your mind-palace, waiting to embarrass you in a future conversation.

Redditors were brave enough to share some of the things they really should have googled before believing. Sometimes, what was supposed to be a quick joke ends up filed neatly away with actual facts. Learn some of the absolute dumbest things people ever wholeheartedly believed, below.

Zalachenko . 9y ago I believed in jackalopes until I was 12. I only found out they didn't exist after doing an assignment on my favorite animal in 7th grade.
MoshPotato . 9y ago | thought that radio stations were playing live music. Like Nirvana was in the studio whenever they came on the radio.
JSiobhan . 9y ago I thought the purpose of the police's Dont take candy from a stranger. school campaign was to prevent children from getting cavities.
Mellomike520 I 9y ago I always thought movie theater screens were just big ass T.V.s. The other day my girlfriend was joking with me, How do you think they get those big screens in here? And I treated her like the dumb one and said Uh, they probably build them in here? They couldn't fit that shit through the door haha. Then she tried to break the news as gently as she could. I'm 19 years old.
imjohnk 9y ago I thought once you were an adult you wouldn't need sleep and adults just didn't sleep in general. I thought this because my mother was a really light sleeper and as soon as | came in her room as a little boy she immediately reacted what I was doing, what also waked up my father. Apparently she's just really caring and cautious at night because of us (my brother and me). She still never sleeps until we are home from going out, what is around 4 am. It's crazy.
Miss_Lamarr . 9y ago My brother told me when I was little that Ben Franklin was a robot. Why else would he fly a kite in a thunder storm? Не needed to recharge.
TheMoustache92 . 9y ago My mother once told my sister and I that Santa Claus had died in a blizzard long ago whlle delivering presents when we discovered that our parents were buying the gifts. She wanted to keep our belief in him going for a while longer and we belived her.
Doos 9y ago When a building/business says 'EST. 1929' I still read it as 'estimated even though I know it means 'Established'. As if it's been there so long they're like 'When did we start this thing?'
LordBraska 9y ago When I was in elementary school and would stay home from school because I was sick, my mom always told me not to be on the computer because I was sick. I'm not sure if she told me I would get the computer sick or not, but... I thought you could get a computer sick for quite some time.
supershala . 9y ago I totally thought mini giraffes were real. When I finally realized they were not I died a little inside.
Phallusimulacra 9y ago Not me but my brother. Не and I share a house and he has a dog. So the dog often looks out the front window to bark at people/other dogs as they walk by and to just generally scope out the front yard. One day the dog is barking at some pedestrians when my brother says, I don't know why he's barking at those people. It's not like he can see them. I questioned him further and it turns out that he had read that dogs can't see through windows on the Internet and really believed it.
 . 9y ago When I was a kid I lived close to an airport in a cloudy place. I thought airplane noises were sounds that clouds made when they moved.
Derevera 9y ago I thought salt and pepper cancelled each other out for years until it finally hit me one day as I sat down to eat and | felt like a right pillock. Before | would always secretly scoff at people using both like 'what idiots, their food is just gonna taste bland'
Tinylittletoughguy 9y ago When I was in second or third grade I was eating a bowl of cereal at my living room table while watching tv. Somehow a bee got into the house and I got stung on the arm in my own living room. I cried a little but then continued eating my cereal after. A while after that I developed some sort of twitch in my knee that almost felt like a vibration when it was in certain positions for long periods of time. I totally convinced myself that the bee that stung me must have fallen in
forbiddenway 9y ago One time when I was little my older brother and I were arguing about him being better because he's older (or something). | responded by saying Well maybe someday I'll be older than YOU! Him and my mom didn't really know how to explain to me that that didn't make sense and wasn't gonna happen. I guess somewhere along the way I figured it out.
 . 9y ago . Edited 9y ago When I was little, and not yet aware of cicadas. I thought that the cicadas' noise in summer was made by the excitement/aggitation of air molecules due to the intense heat.
throwawaynottakenyet . 9 9y ago | thought that videogames are made like movies, they record every single picture you could see on the screen, and they just put the pictures in order according to your input
darklink217 . 9y ago I thought that hummingbirds didn't have feet.
Lookitsoverthere . 9y ago Turns out, hotdogs aren't made from dogs.
revill47 . 9y ago My dad told me that princess Diana died by holding in her poo for too long which eventually poisoned and killed her. That was in the late 90's, I was disappointed when I found out that wasn't the case. My dad just wanted me to not hold my poos in I guess?
Starmort . 9y ago That men have one rib less than women... My cousin told me this (very religious family) and is that kind of kid that gets +A on everything. My cousin was really confused when I told him the truth.
iignobleHeart. 9y : ago Turns out karl marx was not one of the marx brothers.
A_Floating_Emu 9y ago I don't know where I picked it up, but up until high school I thought that liquid was measured in floral ounces (it's always abbreviated fl oz on bottles so never thought about it)
Shmo60 9y ago When I was little, I asked my dad why Buffalo wings were called buffalo wings. Не said, because of the Buffalo sauce. When I asked him why Buffalo sauce, was called Buffalo sauce, he replied: Well you know how native Americans use every part of the animal? (Duh, I answered). Well Buffalo sauce is made out of Buffalo eyeballs. My god, was I made fun of in Highschool.
That_snot_safe 9y ago I read in a small paragraph in Playboy magazine that Boba Fett was Luke's father. I figured I had exclusive inside information because nobody actually read Playboy. I told all my friends for years that Darth Vader was lying and Han Solo was safe. I found out years later that Lucasfilm purposefully leaked that false rumor and Playboy (and I) took the bait.
DOG_POUND . 9y ago Always thought that Dame Edna (Aussie celebrity cross-dresser) was Mother Nature when | was young. Don't know where I got that from.
Piktoggle . 9y ago One time | told my wife that the Jonas Brothers weren't really brothers; that they were like the Ramones and just took the name. She found out when she mentioned it at work one day.
 9y ago When I was like 8 I believed all the puppies my dog had ran away to family members and family friends. I was so excited to have all of these puppies but I had to go my grandmas for the weekend. While I was there they apparently all ran away. Luckily my mother was able to track them down conveniently at people we knew houses. We couldn't take them back since they were already in love with the puppies. She did take me to visit them most weekends though.
Rogo1 . 9y ago My dad believed that if a dog ever ate ANY cat food, it would go blind. Не thought this for 40 years until he mentioned it to a vet. She was instantly dumbfounded and followed it up by a slighly confused ummmm, no.
 . 9y ago That the police drug sniffing dogs did their job because they were addicts and were looking for their next high. My jerk big brother sounded convincing when he told me this and the next day I was defending this point of view at school. | was 15 or 16. Not super proud of that one.
Kurl5686 . 9y ago I believed I had the ability to get myself home if I was bored or didn't want to be somewhere anymore. | would just close my eyes and then I would be in my own bed. Wasn't until I was older that I realised I had just fallen asleep at these places and my parents had taken me home.
 . 9y ago As a child I remember being overly cautious for weeks after learning that our bodies don't regenerate lost limbs

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