skip the menu

the past

1,158 beliefs in this area

I saw a mention of many people dying under the guillotine when I didn't yet know what a guillotine was. I imagined a huge stone slab that the revolutionaries used to crush a whole bunch of prisoners at once.

I used to believe…

that Guerilla Warfare was called "Gorilla Warfare" and it's about fighting gorillas

When I was young, I used to believe that in the past the life used to be in black and white.
I believed that from the age of 3 to the age of 6 because all of the pictures of my grandparents when they were young was in black and white so I believed, there wasn't any colours before.
But one day, I asked my father about this belief. He laughed about me and said it was not real. I felt so stupid.

When i was young i used to believe that at the time of pictures in black and white, life was in black and white. I talk my parents that there should not have been a raimbow. I discovered a reality with a music wach explained my thought and say that it was false.

I believed that the Gettysburg Address was "Daddy's burger dress." Needless to say, that conjured some pretty weird images in my mind.

— banana butt jonesthe past : history

Before reading Luís Eduardo Anelli's book, I believed there were only dinosaurs in North America and Africa, now I know that they lived on all continents.

When I was child, I used to believe that, when the pictures were in black and white, people lived without colours. I wondered what happened when the colours appeared: "Was it at one go or progressive? What was the reaction of people?". So I asked to my grandparents and they laughed. Now, of course, I no longer believe at this.

I thought that the Titanic rammed into the iceberg on purpose, as I thought they figured the ship was so tough it would just plow through it unharmed. I didn't learn the truth till a few years ago. I think I thought this because of how much they bragged about it being unsinkable

— Darth Carriettathe past : history

When I was a child I used to believe that the world was black and white, like in the old TV's that first appeared.

— Jordi Ramírezthe past : history

When I was younger, I used to think, in the past, there wasn't color because the photos were in black and white.

— French student :)the past : history

pick of the bunch

German tiger tanks shot out tigers, the invading army would get mauled to death by all the tigers

Before learning about the Cold War, I thought that the space race was actually two spaceships, one from America amd one from Russia, that launched at the same time to see which one would get to the moon fastest.

I used to believe that Clint Eastwood actually lived in the old west, but I also knew that he was still alive in the present day (this was around 2009 or so), so you can imagine how old he must've been if that was the case. I probably believed this because the main place I learned about him from was Back to the Future.

pick of the bunch

I used to believe the Wall Street Crash of 1929 was a literal car crashing into a bank.

pick of the bunch

I thought “guerrilla tactics” meant fighting like a gorilla— beating your chest and that sort of thing.

I thought the Civil War was between North America and South America. It was only when I was asking my mother how the "north" could blockade the "south" when there was just so much available coastline that I figured out what was wrong

page 1 of 58