What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?

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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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That you could catch pneumonia from breathing in steam from the shower as I heard that a symptom is water in the lungs. A friend's dad died of pneumonia and I had to shower with my head stuck out of the curtain.

I was in a hospital for 12 days that had legionnaires disease causing bacteria all through the water pipes so you had to only use cold water. The steam from hot water, inhaled, is how you get it. So, you know, you were onto something there.

That's pretty sad and terrifying for a child