I used to believe the Egyptians lives in appalling squalor because they lived next to the Sewage Canal (Suez - get it?)
A childhood belief about nationalities

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that earwigs lived on earwax, and that they would crawl into my ear canal and eat my brain.— dodyskin
- Up until the 5th grade, I thought that all Egyptians were extinct. — Amy x
I used to believe that some insects had twenty lives.LOLAnon- I used to believe that when i died it was like a super mario game... I had a certain number of lives.— David...waffles
- that God lives in the roof of our church and makes electricity to light the chandeliers— M
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA