Remember when swallowing gum meant it would stay in your stomach for seven years? Or going outside with wet hair would give you pneumonia? And whatever you do... DON'T swallow a watermelon seed.

This week on the Health, Tech & Wellness Podcast, John Adams and Crystal Nevedale are having a little fun and looking back at all the things we were told growing up that we just... believed.

No Google. No smartphones. No instant fact-checking.

If your parents, grandparents, teachers, or some kid on the playground said it with enough confidence, it basically became scientific fact.

We revisit some of the classics:

• Swallowed gum stays in your stomach for seven years
• Wet hair will make you sick
• Watermelon seeds will grow in your stomach
• Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis
• Coffee stunts your growth
• Reading in the dark ruins your eyes
• Turning on the car's interior light while driving is illegal
• Touching a toad gives you warts
• "Because I said so"
• "Money doesn't grow on trees"
• You'll always need to know math because you won't have a calculator in your pocket
• Cursive will be important your entire life
• Don't meet strangers from the internet

That last one aged particularly well considering we now get into strangers' cars, sleep in strangers' houses, and have strangers deliver food directly to our doors.

And then there are all the things people were convinced would never catch on: buying things online, cameras on phones, streaming TV... and somehow we've ended up living in exactly that world.

This isn't a serious fact-checking episode. It's two people looking back, laughing at how much the world has changed, and realizing that maybe our parents weren't wrong about everything.

So what did YOU completely believe as a kid that turned out to be totally wrong?

Drop it in the comments. We want to hear the best ones.

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