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What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth? (lemmy.ml)

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I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

Carrots will allow me to see in the dark if I eat enough of them.

This was (and is) a very successful British WWII misinformation campaign. The Brits didn't want it known that their aircraft had radar - which allowed them to find enemy aircraft at night. So they embellished carrots' benefit on night vision to cover up their technological advantage.

It worked. Don't feel bad for believing it. Everyone believed it.