Once my dad told me that sometimes glass bottles in the bush start bushfires when the sun shines through them (true). I spent months shining torches on glass bottles stuffed with paper to see if this was true, no such luck.
A childhood belief about chemistry
others believed things like this
- I used to beleive that milk bottles were filled with milk, directly from the cow's udder.Anon
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- I am Canadian and when I was little I would sing "True Pastry Love" instead of 'True Patriot Love"— Jess
- I used to believe that CD's were made of glass, until I learnt otherwise.Anon
- if you broke the glass on the tv, the cartoons could come out, or you could go in there with themAnon
- I used to believe that if I broke the glass on the tv screen, I could go into the tv show...— Karyne