I was taught in school that plants produced oxygen and took in our carbon dioxide. So I would go around grabbing leaves and would breathe into them deeply and then breathe out really hard, thinking I was getting more air that way, and helping plants grow in the process -.-
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- i used to belive that children had to be taught how to breathe.— Dave
- I used to believe that my urine was a super fertilizer - peeing on plants made them grow.— Andrew C
- I thought plants only grew when people were not looking at them.Anon
- I used to think heirloom plants grew antiques— Honorary intern Hector
- I used to believe that when people died, they turned brown just like plants do when THEY die.— Joey Schwartzman
- I used to thing power plants were cloud factories. xD xD— Kaitlin