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I always believed that only black and white cows gave milk..That's what my grandpop always told me..I was probably 30 before I found out different..dumb huh !! LOL
Granygrump
When i was a kid i thought cows made milk because they chewed thier cud.. Mom had to explain about babies then...
KathleenA
I used to believe that gibbons were mean little men with sharp teeth that travel up and down the river in dugout canoes......that's what my brother told me.
patrick
I used to believe that when you put a frog under a drum or a bin, it whould change into a stone.
believer
When I was very young, I remember going to London zoo with my parents and asking my dad why the bison had wooden ears, thinking that horns were ears.
Brian
I grew up at the foot of the southdowns, I believed for years that the sheep had 2 legs shorter than the others, an evolutionary step for hill sheep!!!
top belief!
When I was about 7 we lived close to a fast flowing creek, which a couple of kids had drowned in over the years. So in order to stop me and my two brothers from going down there our parents told us that there were beavers down there, and they are really aggressive animals that attack kids and chew their legs off.............Needless to say we were freaked out and never went down to the creek.
But, after we moved away they never told us the true story about beavers (very scared, non aggressive animals). So when I was about 18 (!) I made a complete fool of myself by loudly exclaiming to by boyfriend and his father "Don't go near the beavers nest- They'll attack you!!!"
Hmm............
Helena
When i was younger i was told that my two rabbits (one male, one female) could not be put into the same hutch as they would fight.
The true reason only dawned on me 3 years ago at the age of 22.
Matt Richards
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While on a car journey with my grandparents when I was about 6 years old my nan told me that you could tell how much milk a cow had inside them just by looking at how white they were. So obviously a cow that was mostly white was due for milking and a cow that was mostly black had recently been milked.
I beleived this for years!!
Sparky (UK)
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my gran tod me that rabbits made a noise that went "map map"
Lise
When I was younger I used to believe that goats actually ate tin cans and garbage. Now that I have my own goat as a pet I know for sure they don't!
For those of you that believe they do eat garbage, let me correct you, they don't! Although occasionally the curious goat will chew on clothes, paper, and other objects, not actually eat and digest them.
Goatgirl
This is to do with my brother (he's 12). I was talking to him about 'big, hairy yaks' and he said, "Hairy? You mean feathery, don't you?" After a few quick questions it turned out he thought a Yak was a big black bird. Glad I caught that before anyone else... it took the Cambridge Encyclopedia to convince him I was right.
silverstar1809
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When my younger brother was about seven I told hime that some sheep had green marks on there coats because they had passed their gree cross code test and could now cross the road safely and that the sheep with red marks couldn't and had to always stay on the same side of the road. He believed me for ages!
i used to believe that butterflies were actually called "flutter bys" because they always fluttered by
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When I was little, I believed that hamburger and steaks and pretty much all meat in general came from a cow. Only, I believed that somehow the cow chose to give it away, kind of like milking a cow, only a lot more friendly and fairytale like. I think that I even had an image in my head of a cow talking to a farmer, saying "Ok, you can take a little off my belly for hamburgers today". I thought cows were so thoughtfull; and I cried when I found out that that's not how it works. Strangely enough, I'm a vegetarian now...
weirdest kid of them all
When I was little, I watched lots of cartoons (and still do). A common joke was to show a school of fish actually in school! I didn't realize it was a joke until I was older!
FF3's Locke
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Until I was 8 or 9 I thought you could tell venomous and non-venomous snakes apart based on the simple fact that poisonous snakes can talk.
I guess they never should have let me watch "Jungle Book".
Mike B
I had a picture book about squirrels. One picture showed a squirrel facing the reader, with its tail held up behind. From that picture, I believed that there was a kind of squirrel whose tail grew out of the back of its head.
Jerry
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Not quite a childhood belief, as this comes from my father who is in his 50s.... nonetheless, until about a year ago, he believed Tigers are green.
It came up in conversation about a year ago and we (the whole family) actually had to find a picture of one before he would believe all of us that they are actually orange....
embarrassed child
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When my daughter was little, she was terrified of giraffes and we didn't know why. We finally figured out that every time, she heard someone say to shut a window because a draft was coming in, she thought a giraffe was trying to get into the car or house!
Alice
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