I used to have a big map of United States of America on my bedroom wall and each states have different colors. I live in Minnesota and the map's color for Minnesota is green- there are green trees and grasses everywhere. I visited Iowa during autumn and everything are orange as the map stated. I thought every states' grasses and trees' colors are exactly as what the map shows.

Alexa

Back when I was a very small child living in Korea, my view on America was basically wide, open plains of bison and Indians roaming free, rivers of sweet Coca-cola, giant 18-wheelers crossing the country in an epic adventure, rugged cowboys, etc. Then I moved to the U.S. and found that only the Coke thing is basically true.

Anon

For the longest time I believed New Hampshire was New Hamster and that was where all the hamsters came from.

Giny

All the cool people on TV and stuff were incognito. I really wanted to go to Cognito, but I had no idea where it was! Nobody would tell me the location. Every time I asked, they just laughed at me. Jerks.

Kino

When I was in the 7th grade, our country was in a huge depate over Quebec seperating. One day in Social Studies we were discussing the repercussions if this were to happen. One boy in my class raised his hand and asked "Will we feel it?"
My teacher perplexed by the question asked the boy what he meant.
"Well if Quebec seperates will we feel it? Will there be an earthquake?"
He actually believed that if Quebec seperated it would actually be cut away from Canada by huge jackhammers!

AngelwingsDevilhorns

I believed there was a town called "Random".

If someone said, for instance, that "the numbers were selected at random," then I thought that they must have been to Random to pick the numbers.

A Grunewald

When I was a kid, I can remember the teacher explaining about the equator and I was certain she said it was an invisible lion that went around the middle of the Earth...

DippyHippy

When I was a little kid, my family used to go to a river in Maryland (a state in the USA). Somehow I got it in my head that the river divided the United States from England. I used to squint to see the English people on the other side of the river and thought one day maybe I would swim across and visit Elton John.

Greg

I grew up in Washington State, and used to love to sit with my parents' atlas and look at maps of the world. Every different country was colored a different color, and I thought this reflected the dramatic differences one would find in other countries.

When I was about seven, we drove ``across the line'' to British Columbia, in Canada. I was so disappointed to discover that the grass and trees and flowers were exactly the same colors they are on the US side of the border.

naive Washingtonian

when i was younger my brother told me that the 'angel of the north' in england was put there because in the past the devil came down and he shot big balls of fire down and was killing everyone. so apparently the people put the big statue thing there to protect themselves and the devil hasnt been here since because of it.

gullible freak

I tried to dig to China in my backyard, but after a while I realized that was impossible. So I thought it would be a more realistic goal to dig to Canada instead...

Anon

I used to think if I looked at a globe or map under a really strong magnifying glass, I could see the tiny people and animals covering Earth. I thought if I looked really close at Powell, Wyoming (my childhood home), I could see myself at the time the "picture" of the Earth was taken.

Molly Cozzens

once when i was about 6 or 7, my class went on a field trip to the playground. i was in the sandbox, set on digging a hole to china. one of my classmates joined me, and as we sat across from each other, our separate holes connected and a caught a glimpse of his hand. for the longest time i beleived that i had actually dug all the way to china and that there was another kid in china who had dug a hole to california!

Kate!

im from new zealand and n.z is pretty much just two large islands (north island & south island) i lived in the north island, when i was about 5-6 i thought that jesus lived in the south island with the queen.... i didint relise that the world is some-what larger than n.z

-g-

I thought the whole of the island of Ireland was Northern Ireland, and that therefore "Southern Ireland" was a completely different island, namely Madagascar.

Scott Daly

When I was small, when I dug in a sandpit, I thought if I dug far enough I would end up in China.

China isn't even the other side of the world for me!

I think I got the idea from a cartoon or something.

Benjamin Bellissimo

I used to think that there was a place called "Random". This was the place where all the winners of competitons were decided. Id always hear that the winner would be chosen at random but only figured it out when I was about 10

OJ

when i first learnt that the world was shaped like a ball i thought that all the people in austraila must have little suction pads that grow on their feet to stop them falling off i was terrified when my uncle moved there because, being born in england, he didn't have suction feet and would obviously fall to his doom as soom as he got off the plane

sera .p.

We rarely went to the beach when I was small. Being by the ocean, I was afraid, that at any time, pirates in an old Spanish type galleon would sail by and harrass the beach goers.

Anon

When i was little, i dug a hole in my backyard and found some shards of old broken dishware. i honestly blieved that this is what people meant when they spoke of "digging a hole to china" and assumed i had done so.

Stacey