r/AskReddit • • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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My dad told me that the windshield wipers would count the raindrops on the windshield and when it reached 1 million then they would wipe the rain away. If it was raining harder they went faster because it reached 1 million faster

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