There was, and it was something which got pushed as a message a lot for reasons which were opaque to me at the time since every teacher and a lot of other adults informed me that in games of hide and seek I must never hide inside a fridge since I would not be able to open it once inside. This made no sense to me at all and - being a kid - I figured there was some strange principle at the crossroads of physics and refrigerator design which would make it impossible to kick the door open from the inside once it was shut, despite the fact that it only took trivial effort to open the door from the outside.
It wasn't until years later that I realized that refrigerator designs had changed just slightly before my youth, and the refrigerators everyone was talking about were those huge deals with the latch on the outside that drops into place when the door is closed.
I totally agree, this was a mystery to me as well. That and a 16mm film or picture from a text book about a kid walking up on a abandoned and loaded .38 special