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I used to believe that jellyfish changed colors, because the two places where I could see them had tanks with lights that changed color. It never dawned on me until years later, that all the the jellyfish and the water changed the same color at the same time.

Anon

I thought that some animals had just been "invented" recently (like within the last 50 years or so)

Makron

For some reason I learned that the big gray animal in Africa was a rhinonceros (note the extra n) not a rhinoceros, which is fact the correct spelling and pronounciation. Not only did I pronounce it with the extra "N" but I was corrected at age 14 by my little sister, and even now, at age 16 I can't break the habit!

animalfail

I used to believe Elizabethan collars are for dogs to amplify their barks; just like how a loud-hailer works.

jaschenyy

When I was younger I used to believe that the electrical box on some of the streetlights beside the roads were where they hid the birds and squirrels that were run over. I was six at the time.

Anon

I thought all snakes were venomous and you always die if you get bit by a snake

Elviessa

When I was little I got a pet rat. I had no idea what to feed it so I tried to give it lettuce. The rat liked it and I thought that's all it needed lettuce and water. One day I came home and it was dead. I was devistated! I thought I was going to prison for murder and hiding a pet rat. I went to my mom and cried my eyes out and begged her not to turn me in.

Anon

To instill respect for animals my mother told me that they all spoke to each other in ways I couldn't understand. I always thought she ment telepathically, and until my teens I wondered when humans would be able to join in this telepathic communication. I still talk to my dogs as if they understand completely.

Anon

I used to believe that elephants had steering wheels. My dad told me they did!

I also used to believe that bananas were made in factories. Guess who told me?

TurtleZ

When I was in primary school, every now and then some people would come in to do talks on how to be safe doing everyday jobs. One time they came in to do a talk about chip pans saying how you should never put them in water straight after or theyll cause a fire or something along those lines. I thought that chippan was a type of monkey so the whole time was trying to figure out why there would be a monkey in the kitchen and how a monkey could cause so many fires!

Rhiannon

When I was little, before I learned animals even. My dad told me the black and white things in the fields were called moo dogs. I believed that until I was about 4.

Anon

When I was 3, I saw a commercial on tv with monkeys. My parents convinced me that I was a monkey since I liked to climb on everything!

Tami

I was in a wood one time and my Auntie told me (cause she knew I was scared of snakes) that snakes grew in ferns! loads of them round the main paths, so I wouldn`t go off the path! I have had a fear of walking through ferns ever since!!!

Anon

Until senior year of high school I believed that roast beef was not actually beef. I never even stopped to consider what other animal it might be. I was simply certain, thanks to my older brother, that it was not beef.

Alli