I believed in the “you can taste sweet things on your balls” myth for the better part of a year.
What?
I was gonna say something about thunder, I dunno, maybe what causes lightning … totally lost my train of thought by the time I got to the end of the O.P.
Taste what in the where now?
There’s a popular fact meme that says you can taste soy sauce poured on your testicles because apparently a 2013 study showed your testicles are home to taste receptors. The problem here being taste receptors don’t equal taste buds.
I’d hate to know what you believed for the worse part of that year.
I was going to post something about American exceptionalism, but now I’m pretty much just adrift…
Why did the OP persist in this belief for so long? For the curious, isn’t this the kinda thing that lends itself to a fairly quick determination?
Gives new meaning to the term dipping sauce.
Only for half the population. The rest of us have to take someone else’s word for it 
For a long time I persisted in the belief that strength and weight limits on bridges was tested by driving bigger and bigger trucks over your balls.
OMG, you’re killing me.
When I was in middle school, my mom told me that you could get pregnant without having sex. Something about how if bodily fluids are involved and your vagina is exposed, the fluids can find their way into your vagina and impregnate you. Since I never received any sex education (only abstinence education), it took me a while to be disabused of this notion.
Hmm. OP joined in 2017. One post then, and his second post, the OP.
Elaine was right. I don’t know how you guys put up with those things.
Dennis
I was going to say the Holy Trinity, but that seems sort of inappropriate for this thread.
I’m pretty sure I believed the old “you eat ten spiders a year in your sleep” chestnut at some point.
There are a lot of those. Perfectly smart people think that hair and fingernails grow after people die, or that humans only use ten percent of their brains, or that baby birds will be abandoned if you so much as lightly touch one, or that Einstein failed math. All these statements are false, but commonly believed, in part because there’s rarely a compelling reason to know better.
I sharted once. I could smell it, not taste it.
This one’s definitely a lie? I’d swear I’ve read of this in reputable medical sources. Obviously any way semen can get into the vagina could possibly lead to pregnancy. Artificial insemination, for example.
It might be that externally exposing semen to a vagina is an unlikely cause of pregnancy. And it might be that, in the majority of cases where somebody claims this happened to them, there actually was sex. But, is it actually a lie?
In part,
"It’s possible for you to get pregnant without having sexual intercourse if, for example:
sperm get into your vagina – for example, if you or your partner have semen or pre-ejaculate on your fingers and touch your vagina
your partner ejaculates near your vagina
your partner’s erect penis comes into contact with your body near your vagina
The risk of getting pregnant in this way is very low because sperm can only live for a short time outside of the body. However, if you’re not planning a pregnancy, it’s important to know that it’s possible to get pregnant in this way."
Since this is the UK government National Health Service, I’d be inclined to trust it. Am I naive?
Don’t let these beliefs hold you back.
Swallow as many spiders as you want. Nobody is stopping you but yourself.