I used to believe that "May Day" (May 1st) was like Memorial Day for Air Force pilots, because when they were crashing they'd shout "May day, may day!"
A childhood belief about i'm different

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the "shark mouth" nose art painted on military planes was to scare enemy pilots away.Anon
- I used to believe the Wall Street Crash of 1929 was a literal car crashing into a bank.Anon
- Polish war memorial ,I thought it was an instruction.as in to polish— oddsox
- I used to believe that when you turned up the volume on the T.V the people had to shout louder.— Tanana
- After Grange Hill's "Just say no campaign" that people would force me to take drugs ... if only.— Netty
- I thought that cold was an actual, positive force and not just the absence of heat— terberous