When I was in elementary school I thought maps were like real-time images of the world (like google earth only in real time). So when we were learning about war in a country looking at a map, I thought that if a bomb went off in that country, we would see an explosion image on the map!
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that every country in the world had the same time. Guess I didn't consider time zones eh?— what are time zones again
- I used to believe gibberish was a real language from a country from gibberland — Kelly Bulanek
- I used to belive, that USSR is the best country in the World...:(— Iryna
- I used to think wars started when a sergeant from one country socked a sergeant from another country.— recovering
- I thought there was a different moon in every country.Anon
- When I was a kid, I thought there was a country where they spoke Pig Latin. — keyboardplayer