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I used to believe when i lost a tooth, if i put this under my pillow, a mouse called Perez will take this in the night and it exchange this for money
But that belief changed when I grew up, because I realized that there was no mouse, but it was my parents who caught the tooth and gave me money.
This left me very sad but at the same time amused me to know how my parents tricked me
I would again ask a girl to find my parents and to get more money for my teeth.

Melissa Perez

I thought "carrot and the stick" meant laying a carrot out on the ground in front of the horse (which it'd walk towards) and laying a stick on the ground behind the horse (which it'd walk away from because it would hurt stepping on the stick.)

And I wondered, why would stepping on a stick hurt a horse?

Anon

I used to think that butterflies were fairies that hid from humans, but now I know they're not because fairies don't exist.

Josselyn Díaz

I used to believe that all cows could have udders regardless of sex.

Anon

I used to believe that female roosters existed.

Anon

When on a car trip thru the NW Oregon hills with my grandmother and grandfather we passed a herd of sheep grazing on a hillside. My grandfather told me that they were special sheep that were born with 2 legs on one side shorter then the other so they could stand level on the hillside.I believed him for quite sometime. After all your grandfather wouldn't lie , Right.

RG Wright

when i was little i asked my big sister why cows chew that way and she told me that everyone was supposed to chew that way and i would actually do it....i'm still made fun of for it

Cookie

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

me and my sister used to fold up our top lips, showing our teeth. My mum used to tell us not to do this because its what animals do when they mate!

dis' turbed

that fireworks were animals with bombs inside ang when it exploded it was dead bits of rabbits

lala

When I was told about evolution my mother simply said "we used to be monkeys,"
So I thought that at one point in my life I was literally a monkey only I couldn't remember. This was dispite the fact that I had seen numerous photos of myself as a young human.
I knew logically it couldn't make sense but relied on it based on the fact it was my mother who told me.

Jack Diddly Squat

I see some people thought cats were female and dogs were male, but I thought cows were female and horses were male.

Janey

I was told by my mother, when I was a kid, that we'd turn into a cow if we lay down immediately after supper.... I tried it a couple of times, and guess what? I'm still a human!

Swan

When I was little and it was christmas, my aunties christmas tree used to be huge. She told me a squirrel lived in there I was terrified it would bite ne so hid behind the sofa for housrs untill we could go home!!

Adele Rutherford

Thanks to the song about the old woman who swallowed a fly, I used to think that not only did cows eat dogs, but horses ate cows!

Jo who's now feeling a little foolish

i thought all animals other than lizards and fish were mammals. this was until like two years ago (i'm 18) and we did animal classification in a.p. biology.

Caitlin

I thought that hippos were baby elephants

Gerna

I used to believe that every baboon i saw accidentally sat on a burning stove and his butt turned red after that.

Lecia

My great-grandmother taught me that mountain goats had legs shorter on one side than the other. I imagined all of those goats needing to walk forever in the direction in which their particular anatomy allowed them to walk without falling over.

Anon

Burned fish fingers ment the fish was from the black sea.

Anon