Dumbest Things People Actually Believed

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mattstaff
Oct 1, 2020 9:00 AM EDT

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the dumbest things that people actually believed. Sometimes, you end up making it in life till you're 25, believing that sugar was out there growing in caves (hence sugar rock candy), and then you learn that the whole world as you knew it was a lie. Knowledge might be power, but dang, it can sting sometimes. 

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