I used to believe that the leader of a country could get whatever he wanted for free because of patriotism and the fact that he was the leader.

Anon

I used to think that when I would go to the bank that they would put my money in a shoebox in the safe and give me back my money when I came to withdraw. Boy was I upset when they gave me somebody else's money!

Anika

I'm a military kid, and when I was little, about 6 years old, my dad was going on tour to Yugoslavia. I didn't know where that was, so I asked him, and he said it was north of some other country. I didn't understand "north", or "south" etc. So I looked up into the sky, and asked, "How do you get up there? Is there a road that goes up there?" thinking you had to drive to the sky. He didn't see me looking into the sky, so he said, "yeah, there's a road that goes up there" as if it was a stupid question, lol. Thankfully, I do understand geography now.

Anon

When i was little, my dad always watched the news. I kept hearing things about a black hole in China. And for about a year i thought a black hole had hit China and it had been wiped of the map

Anon

when i was super young, in the early 80s, i thought Boris Becker and Steffi Graf must be married to each other, just because they were the two best tennis players in the world.

Nico

I used to believe that everything that happens every four years (presidential elections, the olympics, leap year, exc) HAD to happen the same year of every 4-year cycle (probably because the summer olympics do take place during election years). I got very confused when the winter olympics were on and we weren't having a presidential campaign.

Wants to meet President Obama

I am Australian. When I was young I used to get my countries mixed up. I though America was a big jungle with all these dangerous animals like lions, tigers and leopards lived and that American people spoke in Italian accents.

Anonymous

When I was a kid, I used to believe that 'bicycle goal' was when a player did goal with the bicycle.

Rita Andrade

When I was younger, we had a giant satellite photograph of the British Isles hanging in our hallway. There was a small strip of land at the bottom of the photograph (northern France and northen Belgium). One day, I asked my mother what country that bit of land was, and she told me it was France. For years afterwards, I believed that France was a long, thin country, covering pretty much all the coast on the other side of the English channel, and that it was part of the British Isles.

Fern, England