I used to, when I was about 5, believe that flamingoes only had one leg. I thought that, to fly, they would hop really fast on that one leg and then try to fly. I didn't learn this until many yrs later. I still get teased about it.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was little i thought that seconds were so fast that you couldn't count them.— Baby
- I once asked my mom when our cat would learn how to talk.— jenny zych
- I recently very disturbed to learn that Al Jolson was in fact Caucasian.Anon
- I used to believe that if you had an animal listen to classical music, it'd eventually learn how to talk.Anon
- My brother used to believe that when we went to school dogs went to dog school to learn to speak and read— Matt
- I used to believe that if I ran fast enough I could outrun the rain. — Yosa