I thought horsepower meant how fast horses can run. But 200 horses can't run any faster than 2, so why was 200 horsepower better than 2?.....
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when adults mentioned horsepower that there were Horses under the bonnet— Jonathan
- When I was little I thought cows married horses, cows were all female and horses were all male. — Sheila
- I believe there are horses making the car go fast when people told me the horse power of a car.— Jake
- I used to believe that horseradish
was made from horses.— Dee - I used to believe cows were ugly horses— Marlene
- When I was ten, I used to believe that the horses didn't sleep.— Jared