I used to think that if a driver of a car set their temperature setting to hot, and the passenger set theirs to cold, that a tiny tornado would form in the car and kill them, because one time I asked my parents how tornadoes were formed and they told me: When hot air hits cold air.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe my father when he told me that if I sat on cold concrete I would get hemorrhoids.Anon
- My mum told me that cold custard (which I hated) was in fact Banana Blancmange. I lapped it up for years.— Chalky
- that coleslaw was cold slaw. Anon
- I used to think the "Cold War" was a war where countries tried to freeze each other to win the war. Anon
- Ever since I was 8, i never ate chili because i thought it ws cold.— James
- I used to believe that the cold war was happening in Siberia or Alaska.— Liam