You may know, that in Britain, soldiers wear bearskin hats at ceremonial occasions.
Up to when I was about 7 I believed that the army only recruited people with black hair and that they then formed it into this shape
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- I was convinced that Gorilla soldiers in Vietnam in the 70's were real Gorillas attacking other Soldiers.— Mario
- I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_
- I used to believe that the salvation army was an actual army.Anon
- I believed that if you ate a piece of your own hair, a new strand of hair would grow on your head.— Ryo
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- I used to think that the word Great was added to Britain because they won the Second World War.— Age