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I used to believe that if you left crumbs out for a long period of time, they would turn into ants.
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When I Was Young i youst to believe that when you had pins and needles in your foot it was little tiny bugs biting your feet and i took off my sock to have a look!
When i was 8 my dad convinced me that boneless chickens were raised on a farm, youde have to kick them to move em around, and they were fed through a tube
When I was a child I thought dogs were all male, and cats were all female. I'm surprised that so many others thought the same thing.
When I was young I lived near a farm. On Sundays I would go out on my bike. I used to believe that there was an indian reservation in the area and we were going to be attacked only to learn later in life it was actually the cockerals crowing.
My parents always told me that garter snakes didn't bite. They told me this so I wouldn't be afraid of them. I always picked them up and was never bitten until one day I found a very big one. I picked her up and she bit me on the arm. I was stunned, but all I did was put the snake on the ground and was fine. I didn't freak out at all. All I said to my father was, "It bit me!"
When I was little, a family friend showed us her chooks. She said that she thought they were girls, but turned out to be boys. I misunderstood and thought that chickens were magical creatures that could change their gender whenever they wanted.
When I was a child I beleived that humping dogs were "dancing" cause its what my mother had told me several times. She finally explained it to me when I went outside to see our dogs "dancing" on the porch, and screamed for her to help them when they were "glued together".
When I was younger, between 8 and 10 years old, I beleived that fixing a dog was when you put a rubber band around the base of their "pee wee" and let it fall off. I just couldn't figure out how they peed afterwards.
When I was about 4-5 years old my Grandpa convinced me and my brother who was 5-6 that if we sprinkled salt on a birds tail it could not fly away. I don't know how many salt shakers we emptied trying to get it on the birds tails. But it kept us entertained I guess!
I used to believe that when you made a bonfire, the sparks that came out turned into fireflies. Additionally, the color of said fireflies changed from orange to greenish because they cooled off after they got out of the fire.
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I used to believe that my dogs diet was clothes, because that was all I ever saw him eating
When I was little, we had 3 cats and they were all female. My uncle had a dog that was male. Since I didn't know any male cats or female dogs, I thought all cats were girls and all dogs were boys.
I used to lie awake at night afraid to go to sleep because of the dinosaurs. I thought they were coming back to get us.
When I was a wee little one I believed cats were all female and dogs were male.
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When I was six I thought that when all puppies grew up they turned into golden labradors.
I used to believe that there no unicorns left in the world as when the great flood came, all the baby unicorns couldnt get their shoes on fast enough and therefore couldnt get on the ark and were dorwned
on the way back from kenya when i was 12, there was a sign at customs saying 'kindly bear with us'.
i honestly thought that there was a good-hearted bear behind the counter that i couldn't see..
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my friend actually thought that dinosaurs were not real.
she thought that they were made up like unicorns.
she is 15.
I used to believe dogs and other animals could talk if they wanted to -- I guess because I watched it happen in so many cartoons and etc -- but that they just didn't want to.