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Clowns were born like that

I thought that "Ratsputin" was an evil nerd who turned into a rat.

I found this site when I was just a kid myself. Lots of submissions ended in "-lol." I didn't know it stood for "laughing out loud," so I thought that Lol was a name. I thought, "Who is this lol person who keeps submitting so many beliefs?"

For my bday my grandma gave me a black and white stripey dress I was scarred outa my pants because I though I would be arrested after my birthday party !!! I cried for hours because I was so sad on how I would miss my family after a couple days I was so amazed how I did not get arrested

I used to believe that the clowns were monsters, maybe it was for the movies that i watched when i was child but I was afraid to the clowns, on children's parties, on TV, at the circus when I saw a clown I started to cry. it was funny because clowns make you laugh but they gave me a lot of scare. After that when I grew up I found silly this fear and now remember this is funny.

I used to think "Robin Hood and his merry men" was "Robin Hood and his *married* men."

I thought all names could be for boys and girls. I told someone I wanted to change my name to Vanessa and they tried to tell me it was girl's name but I didn't get it

I thought DC Mayor Marion Barry was actually a husband and wife mayoral team (Mary & Barry). I would always wonder why Mary would let Barry do all the TV appearances.

When I was being ugly to my parents or whoever, my parents would tell me I was acting like Hateful Hannah (my names not Hannah and I didn't know anyone with that name). The first time they said this I asked who that was and they told me she was a mean ugly old lady who lived at the dump and if I didn't get my act together they would take me to live with her. They used this threat pretty regularly when I was little. And I believed she was a real person for a long time after I stopped believing they would take me there.

I thought that when someone said that they were going to commit harakiri that they were going to then act like baseball broadcaster Harry Caray.

When I was little, my mom had a People magazine with Brad Pitt on the cover. The headline described him as a "ladykiller." For the longest time, I actually thought Brad Pitt had murdered a lot of women!

I used to believe that Anon was a person who wasted all of his time posting hundreds of ridiculous beliefs on this site. Then, I eventually realized, "Anonymous...duh!" I'm glad I'm not the only one here who thought that.

One time my mom said she was going to visit Alabama and I thought Alabama was a person and not a state and she had a friend who's name was Alabama. I was about six at the time.

My Grampa is heavily into genealogy and because of that, my sister and I were told that I was related to King Henry the VIIIth and she was related to George Washington since we were very small. She just happens to share a birthday with him as well, so I thought that's why she, and only she in my young mind, was related to him for quite a long time!

I thought that smart people never made mistakes!

I used to believe that people born on leap year would only age once every 4 years