When I was little, my mother told me that navel oranges had navels because people stuck little tubes in them to suck the seeds out. I believed her until I was 12 and read in a book about how navel oranges were grown by grafting.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought the navel was a button to turn people off and on.
— James - I used to think that orangutans were monkeys who ate alot of oranges.— Lina
- When I was a kid I thought all the wrestlers on tv had oranges under their skin to make them look muscular :)— Anonamoose
- I used to think that my belly button was where I was once shot and that the navel was a healed up bullet hole— Tony
- I used to believe...If you ate sunflower seeds you could read somebody's mind...LOLAnon
- i thought grown ups read in a different language!Anon