When I was a kid, my father told me that his thinning hairline was caused by flying fish that used to leap out of the ocean and bite out a few strands as he caught the ferry to work every day. I was 23 when I realised that this couldn't possibly be true!
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I used to believe that wind was caused by whales flapping their tails way out in the ocean.— Nanohawk
- i used to believe that the world couldn't have possibly started before i was born.— emma
- I used to believe that a fish cake was a fish in sponge and coated in icing. I believed this until I was 9.Anon
- I used to believe that if you slept with the covers covering your neck, vampires couldn't bite you. — Moot
- i used to beleive the ice cream man was a fish man - becuase i hated fish.— jordan
- Burned fish fingers ment the fish was from the black sea.Anon