i have no idea where this believe came from but as long as i can remember i believed that baboons ate through their bums! i didnt find out the truth until i was 20 and was at my parents house and there was something about baboons on tv, and i said "they eat through their bums dont they?" everyone just looked at me really strangely and laughed, they have never let me live it down!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- when i was a little girl, i beleived that women didnt have bums, because i never heard my mom fart. Anon
- My Uncle Billy used to tell us that if we swallowed chewing gum it would clog our bums up !
— Coolbuzz - I used to believe that we got sausages from pulling them out of pigs bums - all neat and tidy. Mmm— L. Webb
- I believed that if I looked too long in the mirror admiring myself the Devil would appear.— Paul Elletson
- i thought that if you sucked yerr thumb long enough it would turn green. dont ask why! — jordan
- Good looked exactly like George Washington.
I have no idea where I got this.— Leen