My dad told me that polyester was made from the fur of a small animal. He said they kept them in pens and killed them by stabbing them in the eye with a needle. I thougt this until we got a set of encyclopedias and I was able to look up polyester and find out that it's a synthetic fabric.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I thought that when I grew up I HAD to start wearing polyester like my mom.— levi lady
- I used to believe that a vitamin was a small animal
only recently I have found out that it is not true... :)— Sylwia - i thougt robers could shoot into the phone and the bullet would come through and hit me— knowledge
- when i was 5, i thougt my outie bellybutton was a third eye that opens when im a sleep.— bellyeye????
- i thougt that mongols were green monsters that suck your eyes out.— danai
- when I was a child I thougt taht sea waves are the result of whales swimming— waleed bokhari