Someone in my kindergarten class told me once that apple seeds were poisonous and they'd kill you in a second if you bit down on them. I believed that for a lonnnng time!
A childhood belief about seeds

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that sunflowers would try to kill people by shooting poisonous seeds at people.— jen
- I used to believe that the Chinese boy in my kindergarten class flew from China every day to get to class.— Debi
- I used to believe that the dust at the top of doors was highly poisonous and could kill you.Anon
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg