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What's the funniest belief you had when you were a child ? (lemmy.ml)

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When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I thought propeller planes worked by spinning so fast that they temporarily moved the gravity out of the way so the plane could fly.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

Someone needs to make this into an ms paint drawing.

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