My mom's maiden name is Duncan, and in school we learned about Duncan I, a Scottish king. So for a long time I went around telling people that my great great great...(I would count out ten "greats" on my fingers) grandfather was a king.
A childhood belief about history

others believed things like this
- My great-grandfather firmly believed, and had me convinced, that SPAM was mouse meat. — texasblue
- I used to let go all my balloons so my great grandma would get it in heaven— lissa
- When I was little I used to believe that God looked like the Great Gazoo (the alien from "The Flintstones").— Susan
- "God is good, God is great, lettuce thank him for our food Amen"— pj
- I used to think that the word Great was added to Britain because they won the Second World War.— Age
- I used to think that Hadrian also built the Great Wall of China.— Spacey