When I was little I thought that you could jump into the TV or a picture in a book, like on Blue's Clues. So I got a running start at our TV and jumped at it. Of course I bounced off the thick glass screen and it hurt a lot. But the really stupid part is that I would do this over and over and go through this ritual with different TVs and books. I finally stopped when I broke my brother's atlas by jumping on it.

When I was a kid I asked my dad why the lines on the road were in dashes. He told me that it was so you could see if you were going too fast. If you looked down and the lines blurred together, you were going too fast. It was another four years before I realized that was false. My most satisfying piece of information from drivers ed was what the lines are really there for.

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Calvin Lee attempts to understand television:

When I was a child, I had a very big misunderstanding about what black and white television was. I thought that old television shows did not have color, because color did not exist until the 1960s. I felt so bad for all the people who lived back then when there was no color. It must have been so boring and sad all the time.

When I was young, I was told by my 6-year-old friend that kids that lost their two front teeth had meteorites smashing into their face. I was so frightened when my teeth started to wobble that I would look out the window every night to see if there were meteors hovering by.

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When I was younger I noticed some stop signs had the little sign "all way" underneath. I used to think only those you had to stop all the way at and if it wasn't posted, then you can roll through. My evidence was seeing every driver do that.

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I've lived in Pittsburgh my entire life. In case you don't know, Pittsburgh has a ton of bridges (since we have three rivers). At a young age, this constant bridge-crossing led me to believe that every state in the USA was its own island. Every time we crossed a bridge I'd ask what state we were in and became very confused when the answer was Pennsylvania.

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When I was about 3 or 4 years old, I used to think everything we thought appeared above our heads in clouds like in comic strips. When my parents or grandparents asked me what was I thinking about, I answered ''Just look in my cloud !''.

...When I was in kindergarten, a fellow classmate told me to "plant" some coins in a certain spot of the playing grounds, and convinced me that a money tree would grow...When I told my mom about the whole thing she told me the truth, but through the 1st grade I'd check the spot, just in case...

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When I was a kid I overheard a discussion about how Blood Alcohol Content meters worked. Something about alcohol staying in the bloodstream after it was drunk.

For the longest time I believed that alcohol just accumulated in the body, never going away.

I didn't drink until I was past twenty because of this.

When I was five or six years old I loved to eat margarine. I'm not talking spreading it on food. I mean taking the tub, dip a spoon in, and eat! To stop this my grandma and aunt told me that if I ate margarine or butter from the tub it would give me"worms".

Until I was a pre-teen, I couldn't figure out how it was OK to eat it on foods, but eating it alone would give methese "worms". The day came when I ran my knowledge about the dangers of eating margarine by one of my friends...

...I think he may still be laughing at that one.