I used to believe that popcorn kernals were the seeds of popcorn trees. I tried to plant them once.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if I planted popcorn kernels I could grow a popcorn treeAnon
- My teacher told me one time~when I ate the unpopped popcorn, the unpopped popcorn would pop in my stomach.— Petra
- I used to think popcorn grew on trees until i was 13.— Davina
- I believed that Reindeer loved popcorn, and so I would cook a bag and scatter it on the porch.— Popcornsanta
- I used to believe that if I ate a fruit's seeds, a plant would grow in my stomach.— Natalia Castillejo
- i used to believe that if you swallowed the seeds from apples, trees would grow out of your ears!— Scott Davenport