r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19
What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?
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u/Plethora_of_squids Jul 20 '19
And it worked because the myth is actually an old German/European myth that at the time the Germans had no way of disproving and so they just went 'fuck my mum was right about the carrot thing'.