when i was in first grade i used to think that each country in on different planet...like america on moon....and likewise others......
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I thought you could make an active volcano erupt just by dropping a bomb or grenade in the mouth of it. For some reason it didn't occur to me that if that was the case why hasn't some terrorist or someone set off a volcano that way?
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I used to think clouds were mashed potatoes in the sky.
i always thought that when people said butterflys are flying around in my stomach i really thought butterflys were in my stomach!
I used to belive the world was flat
I used to believe that the weather man on TV would make up whatever forecast he wants, then pray to god it came true.
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When I was in kindergarten, I was convinced I could dig my way out of a sandbox and off to China.
When I was younger, I used to look out of the window of our car and see the Sun. Wherever we went, we could still see the Sun, and as a result I believed that the Sun was following us.
I once thought a vent in my hotel room led down to the center of the earth.
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I used to think that the trails that Airplanes left in the sky, that's how clouds were made.
I used to think that tornadoes were giant purple octopuses that would climb up the side of your house and rip your roof off. i learned what an actual tornado was when i saw The Wizard of Oz.
I used to believe that gas bubbles in swamps came from turtles breathing underwater. I didn't find out until high school that my mom had made it up.
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When I was young I thought that if it was raining here it was raining everywhere.
When I was little, my older brother and I used to cut weeds with sticks all the time, and this white juice would ooze from the broken stems. One day I cut myself outside playing, and he told me that weed juice would make it heal faster and take the pain away. The placebo worked, and I believed this until I was 11. Before then, I managed to pass the 'secret' on to my friends, who believed it and told their friends, and so on. Who knows where this is now...
I used to believe I could control the weather by singing rain rain go away or blowing the clouds away.
My great-grandma had this 10-inch clear plastic tree, and she would stick gumdrops on the ends of the branches. I thought they grew from the tree until I was 14.
I used to think we didn't live on a planet just on the "ground" and all the planets and stars were up above us. I thought this until one day my mom said something about us living on planet Earth and I said "What we live on a PLANET?"
I used to believe if I looked up when it was raining, my eyes would fill with water and I would drown. Thanks for that, dad.
I used to believe that clouds were made from a factory chimney that was south of my home town.
When I was little my parents told me that if I stayed quiet during evening car rides, the moon would follow us home. I apparently didn't get the fact that the moon doesn't move like that.