My father told me long ago that cows had two legs shorter than the others so they could walk on hillsides. I believed that for years.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- My father told me that Frenchmen had three legs.Anon
- I believed for a long time that brown cows gave chocolate milk!— Evil Mom
- My daughter thought milk was cow pee because it came from between the cows hind legs— Suzanne
- My father told me that Spam was a mix of sparrow and ham. I believed this for years lol— Tara the Terror
- Until I was about four and a bit my father had me convinced that Friesian cows were called "big cats".— Chris