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  • Jaiden: Well would you look at that, the first video i'm posting in 2017. In a year we

  • can look back at this video and say, "We

  • had no idea what we had coming". So

  • another year has passed which means we're all

  • one year older which means we're growing

  • as people which- ah-.. Yeah this is a stretch I

  • didn't have a transition as a youngster I

  • was prone to believing people pretty

  • much unconditionally

  • as with most children. I just had too

  • much trust for my own good, like, "Oh

  • would anyone have any reason to lie to

  • me,

  • the world is full of nothing but nice

  • people and purity!", of course I've grown out

  • of that mentality and am a lot more

  • cautious. But for a while people could

  • just tell me things and I'd just believe

  • them.

  • I got thinking about all the ridiculous

  • things people put in my head that I

  • stored as fact, and I decided to make a

  • list of the craziest ones, and also just

  • letting you know I was, like, younger than

  • 7 in all of these stories. Don't worry

  • I didn't just find out these things

  • aren't true like a couple months ago or

  • anything. When I was in first grade for

  • some reason my mom told me aluminum foil

  • is poison and if I ever bit I'd die. A bit

  • strange but I think I know the idea

  • behind it...?

  • Apparently biting foil can induce a

  • """galvanic shock"""

  • Basically if the oil comes in contact

  • with braces, metal fillings, something

  • like that the medals will react with

  • each other and create a little electric

  • shock. But all I knew as a kid was

  • Teeth > contact with aluminum foil > Death. And I was

  • petrified

  • I didn't even have braces or anything

  • metal in my mouth at the time so nothing

  • what even happened if I tried it. I also

  • remember going to school the next day

  • and telling my friend, "Did you know that

  • if you bite aluminum foil you'll die?" And she

  • goes I think, "I've bit foil before

  • and I was like "how are you not dead?" Grasshoppers spit acid in

  • your shoes

  • This one probably needs explaining to

  • I was at recess with some friends and we

  • are running around in the grass

  • without our shoes on. When we went back to put

  • them on there was a little grasshopper

  • sitting at the bottom of my right shoe.

  • "Guys look, a cute little grasshopper is

  • wearing my shoe!" And one of my friends

  • goes, "Oh my god, grasshoppers spit acid!

  • Get it out!" And then we all start panicking

  • at the fact that there was a death grasshopper

  • in my shoe.

  • I looked up like she could have thought

  • that and it actually is a fact that

  • grasshoppers can spit a brown liquid to

  • protect themselves from predators

  • it's called tobacco juice and even

  • though it's slightly acidic

  • the worst you really can do is stain your

  • clothes. It's pretty much harmless but

  • oohooho dude, no, I had the image in my head of

  • some Breaking Bad hydrofluoric acid

  • dissolved through everything it touches

  • kinda mean. Also just saying I didn't

  • mean the drug acid even though that

  • could be equally terrifying.

  • Speaking of staining clothes I was at

  • lunch one day with the rest of my class

  • and one boy took out a bag of

  • pomegranate seeds his mom packed for him in

  • his lunch. A lot of us hadn't seen them

  • before because it's a bit of an exotic

  • fruit. So it cost of attention and we are

  • all asking a bunch of questions about

  • them.

  • The boy said, "Did you know pomegranate

  • seeds can stain your clothes and it'll

  • never come out?!?"

  • *GASP* Woah! That must be one powerful fruit!

  • It never comes out? Never ever forever?

  • Not even with the power of *BILLY MAYS WALKS IN* OXICLEAN

  • LAUNDRY STAIN REMOVER IT GETS

  • THE TOUGH STAINS O U T and then we watched the

  • kitty to bag a pomegranate seeds sittin

  • sideways at the seats on the space next

  • to him because he didn't want to spill

  • 'em on himself.

  • Looking back it was definitely just his

  • mom exaggerating because she didn't want to have

  • to deal with stains and laundry. A slight

  • parenting trick if I do say so myself.

  • It's weird to think she's out there

  • somewhere and she doesn't even realize

  • she accidentally taught me that lesson too.

  • This was actually kind of common to

  • believe and I think a lot of people have

  • been passing this myth around for a long

  • time. Sitting too close to the TV is bad

  • for your eyes. I did research on this one

  • as well and even though it might seem

  • like it could be true

  • there's apparently no actual evidence

  • that sitting in front of the TV is

  • damaging to your eyes. but 'ol little 'ol

  • Jaiden believed it and you know what I did

  • with that information? Stand directly in

  • front of the TV.

  • Yeah, for some reason when I was younger

  • I really, really wanted glasses

  • I don't know where that came from, I just

  • liked the look of glasses and wanted

  • them. So when no one was looking I would go up

  • to the TV screen and stare at it. Like

  • one inch away from my face.

  • "this will get me glasses" but it didn't

  • work, obviously. I actually have really good eyesight.

  • Maybe standing too close to the TV

  • will improve your vision. But yeah I'm

  • glad my eyesight sabotage plan didn't

  • work because having glasses just seems

  • like a hassle and inconvenience. Tip of the hat

  • hat to anyone out there with glasses or

  • annoyed by them. Wish you the best; we

  • annoyed by them. Wish you the best; we

  • people without those things forget how

  • good we have it.

  • This was a bit related because it's

  • about eyeballs again. If you try to use

  • your eyes to look back into your head

  • at your brain, they'll get stuck and you'll be

  • blind forever. It's a bit of a spin-off

  • of the other eyeball myth of, "If you

  • cross your eyes too much, they'll get

  • stuck like that!" I never believed that

  • one, but I believed this brain one.

  • A friend told me once that if you tried to

  • look at the back of your head with your

  • eyes, you might be able to see your brain

  • and we spent the whole day trying to do it.

  • Then when I went home I asked my mom

  • about it and she said, "Don't do that,

  • they'll get stuck." *T R A U M A* I think I believe it so

  • quickly because if you try it does kinda

  • hurt your eyes a bit because they're

  • not really supposed to be able to look

  • back into your head like that. And I

  • thought that was like your body saying

  • "Don't push it!"

  • "This is a warning!" And even to this day

  • their "rotation limit"

  • their "rotation limit"

  • I don't know how else to say it. I know it's not

  • of my mind (which I'll never be able to

  • see). And finally the most ridiculous

  • see). And finally the most ridiculous

  • thing I believed so I don't know how

  • this happened

  • no one told me this I don't understand

  • where I went wrong here, but somehow I

  • ended up confusing the disease "Tetanus"

  • with AIDS

  • didn't even know what AIDS was. And yes I

  • didn't even know what AIDS was. And yes I

  • am considered a PG-channel for the most

  • part so if you're a youngster watching

  • and you don't know what AIDS is, your

  • parents will explain it more in a few years.

  • It's a disease that you don't need to

  • worry about the time being. Only adults

  • So, yeah, I thought tetanus was called "aids".

  • So, yeah, I thought tetanus was called "aids".

  • The disease that you can get from an

  • infected cut was called AIDS to me. And

  • the worst thing about it is this one

  • time someone accidentally cut themselves

  • on a rusty shovel and I have the memory

  • of saying "Careful, you could get AIDS!"

  • *cracking up* What, why?!?

  • How did this happen to me?!? I don't

  • understand what went wrong and how do I

  • mix those two things up but whatever I

  • know the difference now and that's all

  • that matters. But I do sometimes mix up

  • saying Tetanus and Tetris. "Careful, you

  • could get Tetris" *tetris music plays* I ended up learning a

  • debunked a bunch of lies, I'm going to

  • debunked a bunch of lies, I'm going to

  • tell you a truth I found out recently

  • Real quick since this is the end-card.

  • So a friend asked me what's the purpose of

  • pink lemonade. And I was like good

  • question! So I looked it up and i'm not

  • talking about the lemonade from

  • strawberries or any fruit to change the

  • color. Classic pink lemonade.

  • so apparently pink lemonade originated

  • because a long time ago way back in the

  • day there's a concession guy selling

  • lemonade at the circus and he ran out of

  • water and he had to hurry and find some

  • more and there is no river stream nearby

  • and he found that a performer had just

  • watched their red tights in some water

  • which turned pink, so used that pink water

  • to make more lemonade and just told

  • people it was a special "Strawberry type

  • lemonade" and he sold a bunch more

  • lemonade, the image of dirty circus tights

  • lemonade, the image of dirty circus tights

  • water might pop into your mind.

  • Sorry.

Jaiden: Well would you look at that, the first video i'm posting in 2017. In a year we

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