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What Weird Body Myth Did You Believe Growing Up?

Nope, an apple tree will not grow inside you if you swallow a pip.

Let's face it, everyone believed some really weird stuff growing up.

Like that you might ACTUALLY get square eyes from sitting too close to the TV?

Or that you could get pregnant from sitting on a toilet seat.

Or that if you swallowed an apple seed, a tree would grow inside you.

And even if you weren't 100% sure it was true, you couldn't be 100% sure it was false, either, right?

So we want to know: what's the weirdest thing you believed about your body growing up? Tell us and we might feature (and fact-check!) it in an upcoming BuzzFeed post.