Are they old wives tales or all out lies or myths? Things like a penny dropped from the Empire State building would kill you if it struck you, or cracking your knuckles will cause you to have arthritis.  These are just a few of examples of lies that you might have thought were true....here are some others that you might not have known about:

For instance I grew up believing that you had to wait an hour after eating or you would get stomach cramps and drown. Totally not true. I now believe it was a way to get us to lay down and take a nap. But we were always to excited to go swimming that we never slept any way.

Here's one I will never understand, but I believed it until I was a teenager. If you play with fire right before you go to bed, you will wet the bed. WTH? Yes I believed it!  My mom also told me, which I in turned passed down to my kids, is that if you watch TV in the dark Mom mom is a horrible human being.

After checking out the video, let us know of some of the things you may have thought were true but turned out not to be.  Share below in our comments section or on our Facebook page

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