When we were studying chemistry and the teacher talked about selenium, I thought that selenium was named after a Mexican pop star Selena who died during my childhood.
A childhood belief about chemistry

others believed things like this
- I thought that the star that Mary and Joseph followed was called Yonder, as in 'following Yonder star."— Kairow
- I used to believe Mexican food was made from real Mexicans!— Holly W.
- When I was young, I believed that because my mother was born in New Mexico, that I was part Mexican.Anon
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- when i was little
i always thought that McDonld's was a 5 star resturant.— B* - I used to think that if a white person and a black person has a baby it would be mexican.— J