I thought that you could tell how many years old a ladybug was by how many dots it had on its back. I remember finding one with a ton of spots, and thinking that I had found the oldest ladybug in the world.
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We used to take the bus all the time when I was a kid, as our family didn't have a car. One day, there were a bunch of pigeons around the bus stop, and one of them was making that "coo coo" noise. I asked my dad why the pigeon was cooing, and he told me that it was because it was pregnant.
When I was 20, I was with my girlfriend, and heard a pigeon cooing. I exclaimed, "Wow, a pregnant pigeon!" She soon had me straightened out.
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When I was a kid, I used to believe that cats were female and dogs were male.
When i went to the horse farm in the second grade, a boy told me if i touched the special fence (which was actually a electrical wire fence to keep the horses inside)i touched the fence and screamed so the horse looked at me. I thought that was true so i kept doing it, later on finding out they only looked at me because i screamed
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I thought the goldfish in our tank looked thirsty so I pured 2 pints of milk in the tank. Mummy wasn't pleased to find 3 floating goldfish in a white tank.
When I was young, i used to believe that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys. Dogs just seemed to act like boys, and cats acted like girls.
I used to believe that cats had babies through their mouths. I heard my sister say her cats tongue must be so tired after having her kittens. I thought they must come through their mouths.
When I was a little girl my dad once pointed out to me some deer droppings while we were on a camping trip. Apparently he was pointing at the real thing, but what caught my attention instead were blue juniper berries on the ground, and I thought that this is what he was referring to. For years I thought that juniper berries were deer poo and wondered why it was blue and how the heck the deer got their poo to stick to the trees like that...
I used to believe that dogs shed their noses, much like a snake sheds it's skin Where I live they;re are trees that drop big seeds that look exactly like a dog's nose.
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I used to believe that a female bird would lay an egg and the male would come by, sit on the egg and fertilize it.
As a kid I used to think cats were female and dogs were male.
When I was about eight, my friends and I saw our neighbor's dog walking about while we walked home from school. We started calling to the dog when the owner told us not to touch it because the dog had rabies, and if it bit us, we'd have to get shots from a 3-foot-long needle in our stomachs. The dog was not ill, but I guess my neighbor just didn't want his dog getting swamped by a bunch of little kids. Nevertheless, I thought that if I touched a dog not on a leash, I would have to get a shot from a giant needle! I don't think I learned differently until I was about 12 or 13.
I used to think that ducks had four legs and that they tucked them under their body when they were out of the water because they didn't like the way they looked and didn't want humans to make fun of them.
When I was about 4 I would not wear the color yellow. I thought that if I was wearing yellow, bees would mistake me for the middle of a flower and come after me!
after being told that satan was once an angel but he was naughty so got sent to hell i used to believe that moths had once been butterflies but were naughty so had been to hell where they got burnt that's why they didn't have any colour and no-one seemed to like them.
I have two that practically knocked one of my friends off their feet, they were laughing so hard. 1. I used to believe that those little dirt particles on your window (on the outside) were birds flying too high to be seen properly by the human eye. Hey, I was only about four... And 2. I used to believe (and still do to this day; I am almost 16) that earwigs can crawl into your ear when you are sleeping, bite your brain stem, cause you to go into a comatose state while sleeping, and you eventually die within a few hours. I mean, IS that really possible; if not, WHY are they called "earwigs"???!!!
My niece believes that their cat is part of the family because it has its name and their surname on its collar tag. When her daddy let his beard grow it was ginger and white, just like the cat. I think she's really convinced that the cat is her little brother.
when i was about 4 i once believed that when i got bitten by a spider i would die because the spider had sucked my soul out through my blood.
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I used to believe that cows standing on hillsides had different length
legs. That's what helped them not to fall down.
When I was about 5 my aunt from arizona came out and visited us. She knew I had a fear of scorpians. So in order to ease my mind she told me that the only time that they come into your home is when it rains really hard. So later that year we went out to visit her. One night around 12 am I woke up and it was raining, very hard. I began to scream bloody murder at the top of my lungs waking the whole house up. Everyone came running to find out what had happened to me only to find out that I was positive that because it was raining hard scorpians would be swarming into the house!