me and sister used to think milk was cow urine. one day my grandpa was milking a cow (he lives on a farm) and we smacked his hand and said, " Granpa! How would you like it if someone touched you there!"

Gina and Alyssa

I used to think that animals pooed out of their tails. The animal that confused me the most was the horse: how did such a big poo come out of all of those little hairs?

Anon

Always thought until I was 6 that you milked a cow by pumping it's tail up and down. Saw a toy one and that's how it worked.Still remember how hurt I felt by laughter when I mentioned this first time I saw a cow being milked. That was 48 years ago

Liz

once, when i was like 4, we had a little family gathering at a farm. this cow started peeing, and i yelled, in front of my enitre family, "look mom, the cow is milking itself!" man, i was dumb, and still get made fun of 12 years later!!! urgh...

Chrystal!!!

I used to think that if you hit a cow with your car, milk (and only milk) would fly all over the place!

Heather

A few years ago when my cousin was very young, my uncle read her a bedtime story and the book featured barnyard animals. I heard him say to her "look Katie, that's a cow. Cows make milk. Cows in Alaska make ice cream!" She is 13 now, and she still believes that ice cream comes from cows in Alaska.

Amy

iv no idea where this believe came from but as long as i can remmeber i was convinced that baboons ate through their bottoms! im 20 now and only realised this wasnt true a few months ago when i said in a (rather random) conversation about baboons in front of my entire family " i think its weird how they feed through their bums" and they couldnt stop laughing

emma

When I was about six, I was convinced that the quartz crystals I would occasionally find in gravel were actually dinosaur teeth.

lesath

When I was 4, my mom told me a story about the time a goat took a bite out of one of her dresses that was hanging out to dry. I took this to mean that goats loved eating clothes, and if I went near them they would surround me and eat all of the clothes I was wearing. I was terrified of petting zoos for years.

Anon

I used to believe that monkeys were related to fish as they both have mouths!

Quako

When I was very small, I over-heard an adult conversation. My next door neighbour was crying and told my mum 'it was burglars..they came last night'
I believed for a long time that a burglar (beargular) was a real bear that wore black.
I never read Goldilocks again, didn't want my mum to buy porridge, and I suffered a recurring nightmare for a long time about three bears wearing black coming in to my bedroom looking for porridge.

Joolz

when i was about 4 years old i saw cows mating and announced, "look! that cow is giving the other cow a piggy-back ride." my uncle calmly said, "no, those cows are playing leap-frog."

pamela galindo

I used to believe that fish fingers (fish sticks) actually swam in the sea. When I was 5 at school we had to paint a picture of creatures under the sea and I painted fish fingers. My teacher held up my painting and embarrassed me in f4ront of my whole class. She thought I did it on purpose but I must have actually believed they swam in the sea!

Jane

When I was about nine, I saw a TV soap with a man talking about a Haggis on it (I'm British). I asked my mum what a Haggis was and she said it was a small furry creature with three eyes and six feet that lived in Scotland. When I went on holiday to Scotland later in the year, I came back crying because I had seen a sign in a butcher's shop that said "Fresh Haggis Sold Here; The Most Delicious In The UK!".

Hannah

I always wondered why , if there were electric eels, why didn't everything in the ocean get shocked.

I always thought when I went to the ocean and didn't get shocked, I was just lucky.

Mike

from the nursessy rhyme baa baa black sheep i somehow got the idea that as white wool came from white sheep and there were black sheep so black wool came from them that there was sheep of every colour from which we got every colour of wool. When i went to a farm on a school trip i excitedly asked the farmer if he had a pink sheep.

Alee

Turtles can fly. I believed it for ages.

My turtle got lost or probably died and I was told it flew away.

Anon

I used to believe that guerillas were monkeys with guns.

Dave D

my dad told me that mountain sheep had legs shorter on one side so they could stand on slopes, but this meant if they turned around and tried to walk the other way, they fell over. i believed him

finda

My dad once told me that the giant rolled-up hay bales that we would pass as we drove through the countryside were elephant poop. I believed that until I went on a 7th grade trip to the zoo.

kelsey