I believed that our old television (with dials on it to change the channel) used to have a number "1" on it. Despite evidence to the contrary, a dial with numbers "2" through "13", I would from time to time ask my parents whatever happened to channel "1".
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I swear I heard a Disney Channel/Radio Disney song where the chorus was a repeated “Damn it”— SpengBab
- I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- This may sound absurd but I thought the numbers next to the Bible versus said what time the person said it at!— Biomeka
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- last time when the television was on i thought the people were performing in it -.-
— irritated kid - I used to believe that after the number "ten" came the numbers "tendy-one, tendy-two..." etc.Anon