When I learned that oil came from dinosaurs I thought that the dinosaurs were still alive underground and oil drills were drilling down to them, into their bodies and sucking the oil out of the poor beasties.
A childhood belief about chemistry

others believed things like this
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty
- When I was little, I used to love dinosaurs, and thought that they didnt poop because they were too cool....— Melanie
- i used to believe A.D. stood for "after dinosaurs".— Jennifer
- I used to think that mountains were actually buried dinosaurs.— Jena
- i used to believe i could go back in time so i could see dinosaurs.Anon
- I used to believe that the hills were buried dinosaurs.— mellybug11