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When i was about 8 my sister, who is a year and a bit older than me, told me that there was a horse that could jump all the way over an electricity pylon. She said that it did it by taking a couple of miles run up! When i was about 11 she broke to me in fits of giggles that it wasn't true and i almost cried.
Izzie
When I was little there was a little mouse in my house. I believed that you could kill mice with crackers with Elmer's glue on them so I fed the mouse cracker after cracker with Elmer's Glue.
Girlfloyd
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I used to think that coyotes were large purple animals that looked a bit like very fat horses. They had green polka-dots on them and razor sharp teeth. When I heard my mom talking about a pack of coyotes, I decided that they could shirnk and that they all lived together inside a back-pack. It was a few years before my dad managed to convince me that they looked like dogs.
Sara
My old house used to have cubby holes where squirrels could sneak their way in and you could hear them at night. My sister, doing what older sisters do, told me that squirrels would eat your legs if you got to close. I spent a long part of my childhood terrified of the cute little creatures.
Jessica
When we lived in South Dakota, my dad went hunting with his best friend all the time. Up until I was 17 yrs old even, even though I'd heard the legentds and stories, my dad and his friend had me completely convinced that Jack-a-Lopes were real. They said they'd seen them plenty of times...
I used to believe that worms was the baby form of a snake. I also used to believe that frogs were the baby form of turtles.
Amber M
I used to believe that bears and wolves were just made-up animals like dragons and unicorns because I never saw them.
Rosie
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When i went to an aquarium i was really excited and couldnt wait to find see my favourite type of fish. I burst into tears when i found out that my favourite type of fish, fish fingers werent actually a breed of fish.
Emma
Recently someone told me that if you tipped a cow it would die. i believed that for a couple weeks until my mom convinced me it wasn't true. Talk about blonde moment.
blonde
The first time I got a new fish from the pet store, I thought it was a snow globe. On the ay back home, I was sitting in the backseat of the car when my mother had noticed that I was shaking the inflated bag ferociously (fish inside of it and all)! Needless to say, i was never allowed to hold the fish baggies ever again. To this day, I still can't. It positively gives me the willies. I'm 21 now, go figure.
Rebecca, US
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I used to think that orangutans were pronounced orange-oo-tins, not o-rang-uh-tangs. I'm embarrassed to say, I was in my 20's, had just taken my kids to the zoo and was telling my niece (using my scholarly attitude) that my favorite was the orange-oo-tins. Never live that one down!
Jamie Leigh
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Our bus driver's daughter rides along on our route, so everyone on the bus talks to her before our stop.
She's pretty little, so everyone always says stuff like,"what does a cat say?" One day, somebody said "what sound does a shark make?" and she starts making the "scary music" theme from jaws! (da da, DA DA, NANANANA!)She thought that sharks made that sound, because in the movie scary music plays before it attacks someone... cute...
KT
I use to think that there were HILL COWS!
Erin
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Okay, this one's for my sister. When she was about 24 years old, she and her cousin rented an apartment together. Well, one evening he was watching the Discovery channel. The program was about zebras. My sister walked by him and began to laugh hysterically. When he asked her why she was laughing, she said "You don't really believe in zebras, do you?, I guess you believe in unicorns, too".
MJF
When I was little I learned about micro-organisms, and how they were tiny invisible creatures that were all around us. So when my friend was sleeping over, she thought she heard a voice, and we became convinced the micro-organisms were talking to her! I had read a book that said you could fit a certain number of them on a head of a pin, just to demonstrate how small they are. But we took this to mean that they lived on pins, so we spent a long time staring at a head of a "pin" (it was actually a thumb-tack) and trying to contact the micro-organisms! We were strange kids.
Evilrabbit
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I used to believe that when sheep die, god takes their wool and makes it into clouds
Oded
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When I was little, I thought that Amsterdam was the world capital of hamsters!
CountryWay
When i was little, i used to believe that animals NEVER slept, and when i was 6, i saw a puppy sleeping on Television and thought it was dead. I was really odd when i was little :)
Sedona
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Once my mom was reading me a bedtime story and I asked what a bull was. She said it was a male cow...and I couldn't figure out why there would be a special name for the cow postmen, not to mention why on earth the cows wrote each other letters. Seriously. She clarified it as soon as she stopped laughing...
CP
As a kid, TV had led me to believe that mice were sweet and loving animals that would be my friends. So one day I tried to rescue one from the cat. I shooed Betty away and tried to help the injured rat - and was repayed by getting bitten on the finger! We had to go to hospital, and I received the "don't trust stray animals" lecture.
sophie
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