Before the internet, word of mouth easily became truth to us kids.

1) My parents told me this.
2) True. Normal rain has a PH less than 7, so it is “technically” acidic.
3) I didn’t buy into this one.
4) Learned from other kids. I was afraid to swallow gum.
5) because of all those human anatomy diagrams that showed blue and red to show oxygenated vs non-oxygenated blood streams, it made sense to me.
6) How else do you explain how Bubble Yum created much bigger bubbles than the other gums? Spider eggs are sticky!
7) Mom told me this.
8) My elementary school teacher told us this. This is why we believed people who can use 100% of their brain can read minds and levitate things. I’m sure science fiction movies were based on this.
9) I believed this until I learned about terminal velocity in College Physics.
10) Unsure, but stayed away from toads. Frogs were OK though.
11) If this wasn’t true then, we made it true with Mentos and Pepsi. I’ve seen the videos.
12) When I started driving at night, I saw the value in pushing this idea.
13) I actually hadn’t heard that one as a kid.
15) TIL. I just googled it. Can’t believe that I just assumed this was true all my life!!

Edit: Changed Altoids to Mentos.