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when i was young i thought every animal had the ability to regenerate severed parts, it just depended how large the part actually was. i.e. a bear could grow back an ear, a human most certainly could not grow back a leg, but a turtle might, and if i had my own hand cut off, well- if i tried really hard, it might grow back.
sobereddy
I used to believe that if you had an animal listen to classical music, it'd eventually learn how to talk.
I used to believe unicorns were real, horses with horns??
Kim
When I was little and my family would go for a drive I used to think that there were dinosaurs alseep buried under the hills. I would imagine how they would look when they woke up and all the dirt started falling off of them.
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Did anyone watch the old '80's Sesame Street? Does anyone remember the little cartoon clip that had a boy brushing his teeth, and washing his hands all while letting the water run? Does anyone remember the fish that swam up through the pipes to pop out of the drain to yell at him to turn the water off? For years I used to believe you had to keep soap suds/toothpaste/ect. running down the drain, lest that fish think you were wasting water and swimming up to yell at you.
Anon.
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I used to believe that black cats had been witches in previous lives. So I therefore believed that black cats could understand what I was saying in the same way a human could and that they had magical powers to make wishes come true. Once I was playing in the street when I spotted a black cat. So I knelt down and whispered wishes in the cat's ear like 'Can you make me have loads of birthday presents?' and 'Can you make the nasty people at school start being nice to me?' I later begged Mum to buy me my own black cat so that I wouldn't have to keep looking for them in the street. (Mum said no).
Sarah
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When I was about six, I was convinced that the quartz crystals I would occasionally find in gravel were actually dinosaur teeth.
lesath
You know the movie 'Planet of the Apes'- the one from the 70's? I used to believe that the guard apes, the ones with the ammo wrapped around their bodies, were real-that they really talked,and acted like adults (I was about 5 to 6 yrs old at the time). I wondered if there were really ape 'actors' a special breed that could do what humans do!
chris
I used to believe that older men were bald because squirrels stole their hair... that's also why squirrels had such bushy tails.
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I used to believe that deer listened to the radio, an idea that I got from believing that antlers were vaguely the same sort of thing as antennae
Regina
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I used to believe that horses ate cows and this was why you would never see them in the same field. Not entirely sure where that one came from.
when i was little i used to believe that those little white butterflies ate your clothes so whenever i saw them id run inside and hide
allie
When I was little I used to believe that if you wanted a milkshake that you had to go and get a cow and shake it until a milkshake came out.
Elle
I used to believe wolverines made good housepets -- I was wrong.
I told you so
top belief!
I used to believe that chipmunks grew up to be squirrels. I don't know where I got the idea from but I lived most of my childhood life believing this!
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I didn't know Reindeer existed, I thought they were just christmas animals for stories
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my mum used to say to me shut the door or you will let a draught in, but i thought she was saying giraffe, and i was terrified that giraffes must be on the loose and very dangerous!
My brother & I visited the zoo with some friends when we were about 7 and 9. One of our friends was a little boy with a very loud shrill voice. While I'm looking at an exhibit I hear him shouting over and over.
"Come look! This rhinoceros has FIVE legs! Look! It's got five legs!"
Of course I had to see this for myself. I got over there and sure enough it had five legs! I yelled
"Hey! It Does have........."
and then it dawned on me.
"No it doesn't."
I swear it looked like another leg though.
Teresa
My mum used to dry flowers at home by hanging them from string in the kitchen. One day when i was about 4 I found a box of tampons...I thought she had hung mice out to dry by thier tails! Poor mice.
Shannon, Australia
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Of course i thought flea markets sold fleas!!
i always wondered why anyone would bother to go and get contaminated with fleas!
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