My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her!
A childhood belief about chemistry

others believed things like this
- When I was younger I believed that pistachio nuts were made out of beetles that had somehow been dried out. — Alyssa
- I used to believe that dung beetles were made out of poo!— zdvc
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- I used to believe that CD's were made of glass, until I learnt otherwise.Anon
- I used to be believe that white sugar was made from ground up bones— shedrez
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon