When I was in grade school we sang a song about the Erie Canal. I thought the Erie Canal was still in use until I moved to New York at age 24. Now I drive down Erie Boulevard, where it used to be.
A childhood belief about history

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that earwigs lived on earwax, and that they would crawl into my ear canal and eat my brain.— dodyskin
- i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- for my little sis -
Paul McCarty song "Band on the Run" but when she sang it it was "Man has the Runs"Anon - I used to think that the actors on tv shows sang the show's theme song.Anon
- Until I was about 15, I beleived my Father was the person who sang the "Cheers" TV Show Theme Song.— Dustin
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso