I was absent from school the day our 3rd grade teacher had explained the holocaust, so for the next couple years I thought it was the same thing as "overcast" since both words sound kind of similar. I thought the holocaust was just a period during WWII when it was really cloudy for a long time.
A childhood belief about wars

others believed things like this
- A[n] nth grade teacher only had to finish the nth grade when he or she was in school.— MD Caruso
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- I used to believe an "Ego" was a kind of hair style, similar to a mullet.Anon
- I used to believe that if you left crumbs out for a long period of time, they would turn into ants.— Bylaberrie
- im grade 2, my teacher said that she was 2000 years old and i belived her— ---pepsi---
- When I was 6 I used to believe my parents were watching me at school on TV. It explained a lot at the time!— opinionata