I was convinced I knew why there were no dinosaurs.
- On Noah's Ark - when they were desperate for food and thought to eat the largest animals first, they ate them all. Then they were too ashamed to include that part of the story.
A childhood belief about characters

others believed things like this
- I used to think the song "Who Built the ark? Noah. Noah." was "Who built the Ark? No one, no one!"— Embarrassed Kent Girl
- I used to think no one built the ark because I confused it with Noah.Anon
- I honestly used to believe that £100 was the largest sum of money you could ever own— Shellene
- I used to believe that twenty was the largest number in the universe.— Bernardo Fernandez
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty
- My sister ate fish food one day and she was convinced that she was going to grow scales— leohauoli