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I used to think a banjo was a type of monkey!

Skylla

I thought squirrels tails were solid (not fluff & more like beaver tails) - I guess that I got this idea from depictions in disney movies. Yeah - I finally noticed that this wasn't true a few years ago at age 17ish. (Boy do my friends get a kick out of this story)

jenna

As a little girl everything I said or did was about horses. One day walking with my grandma and talking about horses she says to me. "You know there are more animals in the world then horses." To which I replied, "I know grandma... there's ponies too."

rose

I used to believe that cows just started to produce milk spointaneously at some point. It was quite a shock when I deiscovered that they are "dry" heifers until they have their first calf. Then the surplus milk the cow produces is used for human consumption. As the time from the calving increases the amount of milk produced decreases. So the cow is mated again, and after the calving she will again have a full udder

Ingrid

When my husband was little, he asked his father why cows were all walking around a hill in the same direction, he was told because cows have longer legs on the downhill side than the uphill side and if they changed direction, they would fall down. My husband believed it for a very long time.

Karen

when i was growing we always went camping. every night we would go "snipe" hunting. i dont exactly remember what a snipe was supposed to be but we were told they were awsome to eat for breakfast. the adults w/us would make noises or have someone hide and do it. we would "catch them w/shoprite bags and place them in the coolers. our parents would stick there hands in the bad and since it was night no one could tell while they pretended there hand was a "snipe". "mysteriously" every morning after, or by the time we got back to our trailers, the snipes would disapeer. when they didnt disapear before we got back we were told never to open the cooler b/c they are really fast and would get out. good times, good times

erin

I used to believe lions were male and tigers were female.

Ismail Onder Ozen

I used to believe that wolves were in the dog family, and foxes were in the cat family... and I'm still not too sure I'm that far off, even after 50 years! Think about it: a fox's babies are called "kits", and they sometimes make a sound that's a lot like a meow. Their faces are more cat-like, in my opinion, than dog-like. I think they run a little bit like cats, as well.

blueotter

I used to believe that there were sharks in the river murray, and if i fell out they would bite my leg off.

Stace

when i was 8 i belived that smurfs were real and that people cant see them but cats can. so when i discovered that robins eggs were blue i came to the conclusion that robins and cats ate smurfs which is why they fought in my backyard and were always under the pine tree in my backyard. i learned later that our cat was hunting rabbits in our backyard and that smurfs didnt exist at the age of 10

smurfs arnt real

If you tire of your popsicle (or ice cream cone) just leave it in the yard and deers will eat it for you overnight while you sleep; but clean up the litter the next day or they'll never stop by ever again! I believed my dad for the longest time..

Anon

I believed that dinosaurs still exsisted in this big pond by where I lived, so when I was younger I would always tell my mom to take me there... and I would see like a cup in the water and be like..."look mom there's one!" and should would say..."I dont see it!" and I would say..." well you can't see them with your eyes...you have to look with your heart!" i guess its kind of cute..but its funny.

Nicole

I used to believe that elephants had steering wheels. My dad told me they did!

I also used to believe that bananas were made in factories. Guess who told me?

TurtleZ

As a child, she knew that animals would ablaze and that they could communicate with peolpe, could give wise advice and tell their adventures that lived in nature. She also believed that animals could take over human life and we could be their slaves.

Anon

When I was about 5, my favorite uncle (who had 2 horses) told me that he also had a green horse named "Old Green." (One of his other horses was named "Old Red"). At first I did not believe him, but then he explained to me that the reason I never saw Old Green was that he was shy and stayed at the far end of the pasture all the time. He had me totally convinced. Later, I was telling my Dad about Old Green. My Dad told me that Uncle A was just teasing me. And I told him, "Well, maybe Uncle A knows something you don't!"

Nickel

I used to believe that elephants had brains the size of a human thumb and managed to convince many people of this. Later, I saw an elephant brain in a bottle at a musuem, and was shocked to see that it was actually around 4.5 kilograms and therefore much larger than even a human brain.

Andrew

I used to live in Arizona where they would hang "Jackelopes" in all the doctors and dentists offices. My dad told me that they were secretive creatures that were fierce if u caught one, but they hid and that's why I'd never seen one in real life.

When I was about 22 I was in a Docs office with my best friend and told her the story and she started cracking up and said "U don't really believe in them do you?"

April

I believed the obvious ... jersey's as they're called in NZ, (not pull-overs)came from jersey cows. Life was much simpler back then!

Gloria Jolly

My dad had me believing that if cows were laying down, it was going to rain, because cows only liked to eat dry food.

"But dad, there's not a cloud in the sky."

Anon

I used to believe that when you put a frog under a drum or a bin, it whould change into a stone.

believer