I thought Elgin's marbles we're pre-historic marbles, as in the sort you
play with. It wasn't until I walked around the display hall in the British
Museum, past all these really boring statues, turned round to my husband
(yes I was an adult before I figured it out) and said "so where are they
then? I can't see any marbles!", that I found out the truth (after he'd
finished laughing at me).
A childhood belief about history
others believed things like this
- i used to belive that 100 was the biggest number in the world "i got at least a hundred marbles."— dan harris
- I used to believe that anyone who wasn't British (as I am) thought of themselves as foreigners!— "velveire"
- I used to think that when a song finished on the radio it would play again on the next station— Maria
- for the longest time every i used to think that Prince's "Raspberry Barret" said "round merry go round"— lin
- I used to think that the word "statutory" refers to statues.Anon
- I used to believe that the short display beds at department stores were for dwarfs.— p