I was told that in order to make a toothpick, they had to chop down and use an entire tree. One tree = one toothpick. I couldn't figure out how anyone could be that wasteful.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.Anon
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- My grandma told me she used to think pigs came out of tree stumps.Anon
- my nanna told me if I swallowed gum that I would have a gum tree growing out of my tummy— ms pouty
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny