My dad once tried to explain to me that stars were OTHER suns far away. I was probably preschool age and couldn't wrap my head around there being other suns. So I believed that stars were pieces of the sun that broke off as it set. I was intensely worried about the sun getting smaller and crumbling away altogether, having no more sun.

so i'm italian and speak italian with my family right in italian the czech republic is called 'reppublica ceca', but 'ceca' also means blind, so i can be understood as 'blind republic' and yeah long story short i thought the czech republic was literally a country for blind people

i also thought than when someone had cancer they had literal crabs inside of them lmao

Wait.. pickles are cucumbers?! :o

I used to think that the word 'pathetic' was spelt 'perfedict' s m f h prolly cause i first heard the word from Harry Potter and theyre so mfkin british

well im pretty sure anything can be a pickled. like pickled eggs, or pickled cabbage . but pickled cucumbers are the most common one

I didn't understand the ending of Charlotte's Web. I thought Charlotte just went away and left her children to fend for themselves because that was the custom of spiders. When I found out what really happened, I never watched that movie again...

I used to think Chocolate Milk came from brown cows. Can't really remember anything else.

When I was little my grandma told me she was going to "undo" my bellybutton and make my butt fall off if I didn't listen to her and do what I was told.

I was secretly terrified of doing it by accident until I was almost ten.

It took me way too long to realize KFC and Kentucky Fried Chicken were the same place (I didn't move to the states until I was 9 so there weren't many in the UK)

I remember thinking clouds were fairly solid objects and being pretty disappointed to find out they were just like fog and you could go right through them.

I used to think "Grandma" and "Grandpa" were just respectful names to call old people, like how you call adults "Sir" or "Madam." When I learned my Grandpa was actually my mom's dad, it blew my mind.

I used to think if breasts grow big enough they will be square shaped. :p One of my teachers back in primary school has full breasts, and her bra and T-shirt make her chest looks like a lying rectangle with one of the edges points forward. I remember I even asked her 'Are your breasts square shaped?' I don't think she answered me, and I forgot how I find out they are not square shaped.

Just before like my 4-5th birthday, my great-grandma died. I asked my parents if she was gonna come to my birthday party. They said she couldn't because she was taking a very long nap, because sometimes old people go to sleep and don't wake up from their naps. (I guess that's a kind way to explain it to a little kid!)

I told them to cancel my birthday plans.

I thought that if I stopped having birthday parties that I wouldn't get any older because I didn't like naps.

spraying "no tears hair de-tangler" into my eyes because I thought "no tears" meant tears as in crying tears, not TEARS as in your hair.

I use to think I could control the weather with my mind and if I sang "let it snow" it would snow that day. It usually did, but I would only sing the song if there was a chance for snow.... I think I just wanted to be Storm from the X-men.

I used to think it was "Tajma Hall" instead of Taj Mahal

Like a big beautiful building called Tajma

I thought Firefoxes were mythical creatures, not browsers (I don't think I even understood the concept at the time) and proceeded to desperately want one as a pet.

I used to believe that when we were adults me and my brother would have to get married. I used to believe that meat we eat was human meat. I used to think that actors on tv shows were acting in real time and I wondered how the actors could tell if my mum ever paused or rewound the tv show. I used to think animals could talk but not in front of people. I used to try really hard to get my pets to talk lol.

I lived in a rural area growing up. The farmers would wrap the round bales of hay in white plastic like this and I thought they were giant marshmallows growing in the field. When I was in kindergarten, I got in a physical fight with a third grade boy on the bus over it and they called my mom. 😂

I thought a rain check meant actually checking when it rains you have to go to an appointment when you couldn't go before.

Lightning is caused when two charges (positive/negative) grow in a cloud, but when I was little (pre-earth science class) I just thought it came from two clouds crashing into each other. I thought it was like the static electricity you get when you touch fuzzy pajama pants fresh from the dryer and there's no static sheet. I guess I was sort of right about the static electricity, but that's it haha.