I once thought that should I be transported to the 18th Century, I would reinvent every discovery between then and when I was born. With my elementary-level education I would singlehandedly bring humanity out of the dark ages.
A childhood belief about history

others believed things like this
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- I believed we were little kids till we were 17, and at our 18th birthday we woke up as adults.— Hoppip
- i used to believe when you died you went to heaven and played sale of the century!!!!Anon
- From the ages of 4-10 (I'm 10) I thought a "Cat Burgler" was a person who stole cats.— MarkoPolo5000
- One of my friends in elementary school thought that Osama bin Laden was "a son of Aladdin". Anon
- that song that goes *bring me a higher love*
i thought it said *breathing in iron lung*— oi