Dumb stuff you believed as a kid?

[dameatball]

88. This was actually partly true. Some golf balls had a center that would explode if you cut into it.

My then 11-12 year old brother was laying on the couch whittling at the cover of a golf ball with a pocketknife when the pressure inside sprayed some kind of white stuff into his eye and onto his face....as well as onto one of the ceiling beams a good eight feet above the floor where he was sitting. Fortunately the foreign substance washed out of his eye and no real damage done. But there is some substance behind this tale.

And, yes, after it was determined that he was not injured he had some "splainin" to do.