When I was young my Dad would take us all to the beach often . So one day I asked my Dad why was the sea so salty? Well he said there was a salt making machine being shipped from Italy ( being from Italy himself) sunk in the middle of the ocean and to this day its still making salt...LOL
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- when i was a child (of course)i used to believe that the sea is salty because God throws bags of salt into it.— Kafka
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon
- I have always lived very near to a power station, and I used to believe it was a cloud making machine.— Kirsty Martindale
- I used to believe that Paris was the capital of London and Italy was the capital of France.Anon
- I used to think that a company had boats all over the world making waves, and airplanes making cloudsAnon