I thought Fidel Castro had died.... Turns out he was just really sick. I was like 17 at the time too :P
A childhood belief about lies

others believed things like this
- I thought Pink's "You make me sick" was "you make me sick, you make me look like a candlestick" LOL— Rice
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - I thought if you get gangrene your skin turns green— Cyberdemon
- I thought that cars could only make turns when you used the turn signals...— Toby
- When I was little I thought if you were sick the only way to get better was to give it to someone else.— Jen