For some reason, my father told me when I was very young that they don't have ducks in America. For years I would relay this interesting 'fact' to people as a piece of trivia, until I asked an actual American "is it weird not having ducks over there?" and was promptly laughed at.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i belived that ducks would take over the worldAnon
- I thought ducks couldn't fly - thats why they swam.— G
- I used to believe that dumplings were made from baby ducks. — Sarah
- When I was little, I had tiny toes and beleived that ducks mistook them for kernels of corn and eat them.— Seguin
- I believed they put heated coils in lakes for the ducks to swim in the wintertime.Anon
- I thought that toilet paper was bread and by puting it it the toilet i was feeding the ducks at the bottem.— Gringo