After a visit to the La Brea Tar Pits, I thought that the dinosaurs weren't alive any more 'cause they had all fallen in the tar pits!
A childhood belief about history

others believed things like this
- A friend of mine thought that some olives grew with red edible pits (pimentos).— HA
- I used to believe that if you swallowed cherry pits, you would have a tree growing in your stomach.— porkchop
- I used to believe Dragons were real like Dinosaurs. I found out the other day they weren't.. Haha. Anon
- I thought a "fallen soldier" was one who'd tripped and fallen during a battle.Anon
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty
- When I was little, I used to love dinosaurs, and thought that they didnt poop because they were too cool....— Melanie