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When I was little, my father told me that the cows in Switzerland have shorter legs on one said than on the other so that they wouldn't tip over when they are walking on the mountain.

When I was 17, I was introduced to some Swiss people and told them how cool I thought it was that the animals had adapted this way!!! How embarassing.

Simone

When I was little we used to live near a milk processing plant. For some reason, I convinced myself that it was a farm and that there were cows living there, despite the fact it was in the middle of a city. When i was about 8 I walked past with my Dad and asked him why you could never hear the animals. Totally deadpan, he told me that all the cows had to go for a special operation to have their moos removed. Worryingly, I was 18 before I happened to comment to a boyfriend that I thought it was pretty cruel that all the cows had to have an operation just so they'd be silent. We split up not too long after...

F

I used to believe that sheep on hills had two legs shorter then the other,i have believed this all my lfie and only found out last year it was all a lie! (I am 15 now!!)

Amye

I always believed there were boy cows and girl cows and boy bulls and girl bulls

karen

I was terrified of squirrels. A neighbor boy told me that squirrels lurked in trees waiting for someone to walk underneath, whereupon they would drop down onto the person's head and chew through the skull into the victim's brain. I literally would not walk under a tree for years.

Meowpossum

When I was a little kid, I asked my mother about the balls of leaves up in the trees.
She told me that they were squirrels nests.

From then on, i believed that squirrels laid eggs.

I refused to believe that squirrels gave birth to live young in their nests. I would then defiantly argue and tell the person that squirrels built nests so that they could lay their eggs in them.

squirrely girly

A friend told me that Killer Whales / Orcas could tell if you were a bad person or not.

If you were bad then they would eat you. I totally believed it.

Lindsay

I used to be terrified of the dog pound. I thought that stray dogs were sent there and then passed through a conveyor belt that had giant sledge hammers that would come down and crush them. That is why it was called a "pound" and they had to be "put down". I still kind of think of it that way.

Kristin

when i was younger my two sisters and i would always go to our neighbors' house and play various games with them. one night we were playing hide and seek in the dark and to make it less scary(we were all under 10) we got into groups of two,i was with my neighbor's brother who was 9 and i was 8. i suggested we hide in the weeping willow tree in his back yard. he asked me if i knew about the bats,i said no. he then informed me that large bats the size of owls lived in weeping willow trees and pee on anyone's head that walks by at night. since he was older i belived him. to this day i aviod walking under weeping willow trees at night.

Anon

When I was little I used to peek around the door to my room and watch what my parents were watching on TV when I should have been sleeping. One night they watched Jaws. After that I was afraid of the toliet and thought a shark was going to pop out and get me. I was also afraid of the wave pool. In the deep end there were bars under water blocking kids from getting into where the wave machine was and I thought that was where the sharks were kept.

Jodi

When I was younger, I thought that deer could only cross the road at a deer crossing sign.

Brittany

Bats fascinated me when I was in kindergarten. Since the french word for bat is "Chauve-Souris" (Bald Mouse), I really thought bats were flying mice!

Iñaki

I thought that rats were boys and mice were girls, and that colts were an entirely different animal from a horse. I also thought that parakeets and canaries were the same animal.

Dr. Doolittle

I thought a porpoise was the same thing as a pufferfish

Nemo Boy

When I was 4 I believed I was a dog

Henry (the hound)

One of my old babysitters told my sisters and me that if we went outside without shoes on, then we'd get 'hookworms' hooked onto the bottoms of our feet and they'd go into our skin and kill us.
We still didn't wear shoes...

Liz G.

1-I used to belive that naugahyde (vinyl) came from the hides of cute little tan animals named Naugas and I wanted one as a pet and that they looked like naked cats.
2-I also thought that Mouton (fake fur) was a type of extinct rabbit-llama creature.
3-I thought that a hyena was the result of a dog and cat mating.
4. I also believed that an elephant could suck you up his nose like a vaccum cleaner or blow you across the street if it sneezed
I had a very active imagination as a kid.

Anna

As a kid I think I asked to many questions. My Dad finally explained how the sheep stood upright on the steep slops of the mountains by telling me that they had shorter legs on one side. My biology teacher found that a unique proof of natural selection.

R Campbell

my daughter used to think that sheep that were grazing on steep hills had two legs shorter than the other to help them balance! She also believed (her dad told her this one) that all babies were born boys and if you wanted a girl you had to put them in a freezer and then there willies would drop off!!

debbie

my wife(when she was a little Girl) was told by her Dad that sheep had shorter legs on one side so that they could stand up on hill sides.

Jeff Carter