I used to believe that the first time I heard about an animal was the first time ANYONE had heard about it. The platypus was discovered sometime in the early to mid-nineties.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- As a kid every time I heard a person say "it's about time" I always replied "so what about it?"— Eli the Kid
- The first time i heard of someone getting fired from a job, i thought that they were actually set on fire.Anon
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- whenever i heard a melody, i thought it stuck in my stomach when i heard it in my mindAnon
- I thought for a long time that beaver and badger are the same animal— Ted Snow
- I used to think for a very long time, that spam was left over animal parts with salt.— Ebony