I once heard the story of Rip Van Winkle and from then on I thought the reason they wrote R.I.P. on gravestones was because the people were sleeping.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when people wrote in cursive, they were writing in Spanish.— Ellen
- When i was little for some reason i thought that all people from china knew karate.....yeah.— sneakydean
- I legitmately thought that my mom wouldnt be able to read my diary if I wrote it pig latin!— Ashley
- I thought that the women who drove the bookmobile actually wrote all of the books on the shelves.— Dan
- I thought hills were dragons sleeping under the grassAnon
- Chopin wrote Chopsticks.Anon