Reminds me of a story from when I was a child. For several years we didn't have a TV. One day I went to school and all the kids were saying that gorillas with machine guns had taken over the 1972 Munich Olympics. Very matter of fact. All of a sudden everyone just went mildly crazy.
A few days later I saw a newspaper article with the headline saying "Guerillas doin' sumthin sumthin" and I asked my dad what that word was.
When I was in early grade school, we lived in the Silver Valley region of Northern Idaho which was home to several large mines. I remember asking my dad why the bars and taverns disliked miners because so many people here were miners. He quickly realized that I had been looking at the sign on the door of a tavern that said "No minors."
My son (1st grade?) was out in the yard with the next door neighbor girl playing. Her older brother came along and they got in an argument and the brother called her “pyscho!”
My son came to the defense of the girl and said “Oh yeah - well, you’re garbage!!”
My wife told our son that it wasn’t okay to call him garbage.
“Well - he called her ‘recycle’!”
(First grade environmental indoctrination was going strong at the time.)