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My uncle Bruce always told me that Welsh sheep can stand straight on steep hills because they have two legs shorter than the others.
I'm sure it must have been high school biology lessons when the truth hit me...!!!

Rachel

When I was very young, I turned to Mum in the pet shop and said 'Mummy, when are the hampsters going to eat their sultanas?' referring to their droppings!

Sarah

I used 2 belive that boy horses had hairy feet and girls diddn't,thats all thanks 2 my little pony's because the one's with the fluffy feet were allways bigger. The funny thing is I only realised it was'nt true about 3 months ago!!!

Bexi

i would like to say that when i was very young i believed that giraffes laid their eggs underground. Unfortunatly this happened about a year ago (i'm now 16) but the very worrying thing was that i hadn't even thought that giraffes don't even lay eggs- all i could think was 'how would they dig the holes with their hooves?'

Anon

when i was little i saw a godzilla movie and i went outside and i saw my brother's iguana and i went aroun yelling GODZILLA IS HERE.

iguana boy

i used to belive that mice were evil and that was why elephants were scared of them but then i had a pet one and i hide from it when i went into the room so i had to get rid of it because i wouldn't go to sleep until i was sure it was a sleep therefore i was deprived of a lot of sleep

Anon

I lived in a small country village when I was a child. My best friend's uncle owned a local farm and we went to visit him. He showed us his newly born calves. When we returned home I told my mum that my friend's uncle Ted had shown us his bollocks.

Philip

I used to believe that unicorns truly existed because I saw one at the circus as a kid. For years I would defend what I saw, then I realized it was just a white horse with a horn attached to its head and a beard to its chin. However, I still want to believe in unicorns.

Jerry

Used to think that Cattle Guards were actual men that rode around on horses, guarding cattle. In fact, they are metal rails placed strategically in the roadway to keep roaming cattle from crossing the road.

Mindy

When My brother Kenneth was about 6 (I was 12) I had told him, as we were around a bunch of roosters that when they say, "Cocka-doodle doo" they were in fact saying, "Kenneth is a poop". He reciently told me (he's now 19) that he was convinced that's what they said, and had thought that for at least 8 or so years after!!

Mark

my 7 year old cousin is totally adamant that naomi campbell is a camel, because she hears naomi's name as 'naomi camel' its so sweet!

harriet

I thought worms would hurt their heads (?) by bumping into rocks in the dark, so I collected some and painted them all luminous green, so that they would glow in the dark. I don't know if they could see better, but they didn't live much longer.... sorry, worms

Claire

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.

Casper

I used to believe that when the term, "Guerillas" was used, I actually thought it meant "Gorillas" as in the animal.

Sue

I used to believe that fax (as in fax machine) stood for Furry Animal Xpress and that the squirrels carried your messages back and forth across the power lines.

Justin

I used to believe that starfish have two arms and two legs and that the other branch is the head. I blame Spongebob.

Trisha Gaurav

For some reason I had two weird beliefs related to octopuses when I was about five (maybe four, maybe six but around that age). The first was when Dad told me that my aunt and her roommate were visiting and for some crazy reason, I thought that they'd bring an octopus with them.
The second was that I thought that at some point in history, an octopus had tried to be Santa but then realized it couldn't breathe air, so it gave up and let Santa do the present-delivering.

Anon

It used to be common school knowledge that the meaning of 'twat' was a pregnant goldfish ... later on i found out the real meaning ... but in in bizarre twist found out that a pregnant goldfish is in fact called a twat (or a twit depending on
which books youread)

cow23

When i was small ( young :P ) i belief that cow and horse are a pair. You know cow is a women and horse is a men. :]

Gruby_Jakub

Ten years ago, I used to believe that animals and human could make love and do "chromosome babies" : half animal and half human !

I never tried on my dog !!!!

Harry and Romain, French students in 8th grade