My father believed that President Lincoln was famous for freeing the sleighs. Dad hypothesized they must have gotten stuck in a snow drift, and Lincoln went out and got them unstuck. Really.
A childhood belief about history

others believed things like this
- I used to believe because I was born I Abe Lincoln's birthday I had a better shot at being President.— END
- when i was in kindergarten i believed that abe lincoln was buried in a cabin and not a coffin— lisa
- I used to believe that God looked exactly like the picture of Abraham Lincoln on an American penny.— Leah
- i was convinced that snow was pink, i was devastated the first i saw real snow.Anon
- I used to believe that all famous people knew each other.— Liz
- If your first name is on the credits for a movie, you're famous.Anon