I thought that Martin Luther King Jr was the great great great etc grandson of Martin Luther and wondered why he was black if Martin Luther was white
A childhood belief about history

others believed things like this
- I used to believe Martin Luther King chose your birthday.Anon
- I believed when young that horses with white faces were sick. My dad a great sense of humour— John Cavanagh
- When I was in kindergarten, I thought the last line of "America" was "Great God our kid." — CC
- when the sign on the highway said do not pass and dad did i thought he would be in great dangerAnon
- I thought that FDR was an government organization during the Great Depression, not a president.Anon
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela