I used to think all cats were MALE and all dogs were FEMALE, because we had a male cat and a female dog when I was a little tyke.
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I used to believe that killer bees would take over the world by the time I was an adult.
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I thought that all the birds have their ears under their wings. Evertime a bird wanted to hear it has to lift the lef/right wing.
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My eldest brother convinced me that as bees made honey, wasps made jam conserves - I still 30 years later have a sneaking suspicion that it's true
I really believed that cats had nine lives, so they're not afraid of jumping down from high heights. I envied them.
I've always thought butterflies are all girls and bees are boys. It seemed logical to me. I still like to think of it this way.
I used to think "Dachshund" was pronounced "Dashhound". I called them Dash Hounds until I was 12 or so.
For some reason I had got it my mind that humans were the creators of all life. My mother was, to say the least, surprised when asked her to give birth to a cat, since I just gotten a sister.
I used to have an obsession with bringing creepy crawlies, especially woodlice into the house. My mother got so annoyed one day that she told me woodlice bit really really hard. When I said I didn't believe her she replied with "How do you think that they bite through wood"
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When I was little I filled my pockets with rabbit droppings because I thought they were special, shiny, black pebbles.
I used to believe that male hamsters just had very big bottoms.
I used to believe that dung beetles were made out of poo!
Not mine - my wife's. She believed that the elephant's trunk was also it's, umm, copulation device. She was eighteen when I demonstrated otherwise by taking her to Chester Zoo.
My mother apparently still believes that those little flies you find on over-ripe fruit "just form there", kind of out of thin air. Apparently the fruit produces them spontaneously. She's 60 this year. Well. On the other hand, until recently my sister (now 34) believed that the muck you get on your windscreens is caused by flies and bugs relieving themselves (yes, sh***ing on them). She used to take it quite personally, too.
Everyones heard the stories about animals who live on hills with two legs shorter than the others so they could stand on hills-my version was the haggis.My mum was scottish and told me that haggises lived on hills in scotland and spent all day running round hills with two short legs and two long legs.
When I was little I used to live in the country. When walking with my Mum to visit my auntie I asked we would sometimes come across horse dung on the road. I asked my Mum what happened to it and she said that the devil collected it. This seemed reasonable at the time.
My parents once showed me the plastic cows in Milton Keynes (UK) from a train window. They told me it was because Milton Keynes didn't have any cows of its own, and I thought this was really sad, that they had to make cows because they couldn't afford any real ones.
My earliest memory is of my neighbour's weiner-dog. When she strolled past our house with her dog, I would run up to them to pet the dachshund. I remember asking the lady if she fed her dog weiners--I was sure that was why he turned out that shape!
When I was small I thought penguins could fly. It seemed very logical to me -- they had wings and they were birds! I had a whole dicussion with my grandpa about this.. I thought he was so dumb!
Whenever we'd go on holiday we'd go via the motorway and there would be these horse boxes with CAUTION HORSES in big bold lettering.
I always wanted to visit this place called Caution and see all these wonderful horse!
Took my mother some time to convince me that there wasn't a place called Caution!