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Friend (adult) and I drove passed a place that advertised albino deer and she thought they were gulling the public because she believed that deer turned white in the winter time.

Anon

a donkey is just a small horse.

Anon

One day i found a rabbit and i went in and asked my parents how to catch it... they told me if i sprinkled salt on the rabbits tail it would slow down so i could catch it... i went out there for a good 45min and tried to sprinkle salt on it's tail... my parents jus stayed in the house and laughed at me.... i later came in and cried... they still tease me bout it today....

Teesha

I used to think that all flamingoes were like a really bright hot pink. We were driving down through florida and my dad pointed out some flamingoes.I didn't believe him because some of them were brown and only only a few had a lot of pink. It wasn't til after that I realized that those bastards from the Beanie Baby company were lying about those flamingoes...

Haineko

When I was younger, I thought shrimp normally lived in fresh water, but if you put them in salt water, they would grow and grow until they turned into lobsters! It wasn't until I, at the age of 10, matter-of-factly told an adult that I was disabused of that little notion.

Manon

during my first week in a new school, aged 11, on my way to school on the bus one morning i noticed a cow was 'trying to climb on top of another cow).
I thought they were playing around, i didnt know the facts of life at that point.

mrsclay

My Grandpa told me there was a tiger living in his bushes just below his bedroom windows. He told me that if I waited and watched, I'd hear him and maybe even see him! Everytime we visited him, he'd take me to go look at the tiger. I'd stand on my tip toes looking out his window, down at the bushes waiting to see his tail flickering through the air. I heard that old tiger several times, but I never saw a thing. ;)

Kelsey

I use to believe that every night when we were sitting outside that the fire flys were Tinker Bell and her friends comming to dance for me....

WHo would have thought years later they would make a song about the same thing...

Avril

On Christmas Eve all the animals are able to talk but only for that night!

Anon

When I was about 8 or nine years old, my cousin told me that if you screamed at a roach it would die. I can just imagine what everyone thought when I was screaming in the bathroom!

Brenda

I used to believe you could fly if you were sprinkled with the White powder on butterfly wings

Nicola

I used to think that birds and dinosaurs were the only animal that laid eggs.

Marie

I thought ground squirrels were called grounds girls.

Anon

i used to belive if you picked a guinea pig up by it's tail it's eyes would pop out

christopher

As a youngster my brother and i had a fascination with the fridge light(we were easily amused!) our mum eventually got sick of finding the door open and told us that baby penguins lived in the fridge and they would die if we kept opening the door because they'd get to warm. A belief that took me longer to loose than i am willing to admit!

lennie

when i was little my mum and dad told that sheep that lived on hill had two legs shorter than the other two so they didnt fall off. i did not question this untill i was 21 and i was telling my 2 yr old neice and realised that the sheep would not be able to walk in any other direction than the one they were stood in...of course by that time i had told my neice in front of a load of people who all thought i was mad

k

In the house I grew up in, there was a grate in the front yard, and I used to think that dolphins lived down there (because I was told alligators lived in sewers). So I took it upon myself the responsibility to 'feed' the 'dolphins' with leaves and garbage and "berries" I found in my neighbour's backyard. I also thought it would be nice for me to talk to them once in awhile so they could have some company.

Then I found out alligators don't live in sewers, either.

That's when I gave up on the dolphins.

LellyT

My parents once told me that a haggis was a scottish hedgehog, with soft spines. Naturally, I trusted my parents and took their word for it
I fell out with my best friend over this as she insisted it was a sheep! I didn't find out the real truth until I was 12. Oh! The humiliation!

KAt

When I was a kid, my cousin convinced me that acorns were rabbit eggs. I went around stompin' on acorns for the rest of the day lol... She also told me my kitty would fly if I threw him in the air, needless to say...He never came back home...

Stephanie

I used to believe that there were bats living in my toybox

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