When I learned balls have a significant role in child-making my first though was women got pregnant by surgically transfering a man’s testicle to their belly. Then I realized balls come in two’s and I do in fact have more than one sibling
Kept the covers over my head for this exact same reason. I figured I would feel it if a vampire tried to remove the blanket or sheet and I could defend myself… no real thought or planning put into how I would defeat a vampire, but at least I’d be awake. A very religious aunt told me vampires don’t exist and that it was in fact demons sent from hell that were trying to get me and all children… I was four when this was explained to me. It’s one thing to get scared because you saw a movie about a kind of monster and quite another to have an adult you’ve been told by your parents to respect explain what to her was a real monster and one of which she was convinced actually existed. I was a very light sleeper well into my teens.
My mom told us that microwaves are bad for our health due to radiation. I did not want a microwave in my own apartment until I was 20 and my GF just got one.
They’re bad in that they’d cook you with enough intensity, but we don’t know of other side-effects. Microwaves are not comparable to ionizing radiation like X-rays, gamma rays or ultraviolet light, which can genuinely damage your DNA.
I started learning BASIC when I was 7 and used to think that the POKE command was a magical incantation that could do anything. Like you could make an entire game with a single POKE. You just had to find the right one.
I remember watching Spartacus with Kirk Douglas. I remember that I thought he was wearing some sort of muscle prosthetics bc I thought people couldn’t be that muscular. It’s funny because by today’s standards he wasn’t buff at all.
I was so confused over how answering machines worked, but I don’t remember the specifics anymore! I think what confused me was, how and especially where the messages would be stored. As in, can my neighbours call the number of my answering machine (if we had had one) and then listen to the messages that were left for us?
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