I used to think that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys. I think my reasons were that cats are pretty and clean (always washing) and elegant. Dogs are dirty and loud and lack manners. Made perfect sense to me.

Andrea from Oklahoma takes the getting pregnant by kissing idea to the next level:

When I was younger I thought you got pregnant by french kissing. I was playing with a friend's dog and it was licking my face. It licked my mouth and I started crying because I didn't know how to tell my mom that I was going to have puppies

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I can remember being a little kid and riding to places in the car with my parents. While crossing over concrete bridges I would think that the "bdbump" sound of the car tires going over the gaps in the concrete was the sound of the horses in the engine because I knew that cars had a lot of horsepower.

When I was about eight or nine years old I saw quite a few blind people grocery shopping, walking around in malls, etc. I was pretty sure they could do everything that everyone else was capable of as long as they had their dog. I even thought blind people could drive if they had their guide dog with them!

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I used to never get into a swimming pool by myself because I thought that invisible sharks would attack me.

Apparently these invisible sharks could only eat one child at a time?

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When I was little I used to secretly believe that the hills around my home (in California) were actually giants that had fallen asleep thousands of years ago, and had slowly been covered with dirt and trees before normal-sized humans had settled the area. I never told anyone this believe because I knew they'd think it was silly, but I figured when the giants awoke, I'd be prepared to befriend them and save humanity!

I also believed that if I saw a cloud in the shape of any given animal, one of that kind of animal had died that day. For some reason cloud shapes always looked like alligators to me, and I worried about their population numbers.

Clearly I had an active imagination.

Up until I was about five, I thought all girls were vegetarians and all boys were omnivores. This was because me and my mom were both vegetarians, but my dad ate meat. I also thought that tigers were female lions.

I realized how wrong I actually was as soon as I started school.

When I was young I had a white rabbit. I always thought that the only way for it to stay white was to wash it with milk. So I did. A couple of times. Poor bunny. I don't remember what happen to him. I am sure I didn't dunk it in a glass of milk and eat it with my cookies.

Inexplicably, I thought that hay bales out on a field were hibernating cows, and I believed it much, much longer than I would care to admit. Even now (at 33), it somehow seems logical to me.

No worries. Once my mother was convinced that she was looking at buffalo out in a field. It took me a while to make her realize that they were really hay bales. Those damn things will confuse everyone if we don't stop them.

My coworker has two rabbits and she was told they were both males. However, one of the rabbits recently gave birth to several baby rabbits, so it is apparently a female. When she mentioned this at a family gathering her dad (somewhat of a wildlife expert) told her "Well, you know, if you put two male rabbits together, one of them becomes a female."

She believed him and shared the news with me the next day. I looked at her and said, "that's probably why they reproduce so prolifically." Another co-worker set us straight and her dad confirmed that he was joking.

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