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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I thought black and what television was black and white because history happened in black and white. I suppose that means life in colour happened after the invention of colour tv

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The invention of color was a big deal

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I think they just brought it back from Oz.

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One of my favorite Calvin and Hobbies about this topic.

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Tangentially related… The creation of the blue LED was so revolutionary, and took so much effort and science to make, that the guy who discovered how to make blue LEDs got a nobel prize.

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My eyes only got 66% of the update.

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Pleasantville: a documentary

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I thought that if enough time passed old photos would turn black and white like how they were b&w in the 80s and turned colour in the 90s.

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I used to think Parkinson’s disease was named after TV chat show host Michael Parkinson.

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I know you were probably just confusing it with Lou Gehrig’s disease, but this absolutely cracked me up.

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I think it was just because Michael Parkinson was a prominent figure in the UK when I was a kid in the early 2000s, and Muhammad Ali was also the most prominent figure who had Parkinson’s disease.

And seeing as Michael Parkinson conducted some famous interviews with Ali in the 70s and 80s, I assumed he must have caught Parkinson’s from him. πŸ˜‚

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I thought CEOs worked super hard

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there are people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, etc who still believe this

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There was a coca cola plant in my hometown. When we were kids, my dad used to tell us that the huge water tanks that were painted as coke and sprite cans actually contained soda and I always imagined diving in them. Obviously he was just fucking with us, but I actually believed it for a while.

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I thought cats were female and dogs were male. Can you tell I didn’t have pets growing up?

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I still say this but I know it isn’t true.

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I know a disturbingly high number of adults over 40 that refer to every dog as he/him and every cat as she/her no matter how many thousands of times they are corrected on it.

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Have you been around girls and boys. This makes perfect sense. I think the science might be wrong.

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