I used to think preserves (like jam) and preservatives were the same thing and I heard people say preservatives were bad for you so I wondered why people would eat pure preservatives
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe a tornado was a omato flying around and wondered why people were afraid of them.Anon
- i always wondered why people sent plums to the queen, in the anthem "send her victorias"— anon uk
- Some sport cars have a double exhaust. I wondered why. Why would people want to pollute twice as much?— F*ck the environment?
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex
- When I was a kid I heard that the Beatles did acid and I wondered if they melted from it.Anon
- I heard my mum talking about foreign people, and I later asked, "have you ever been to Foreign?"— Kia