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I used to believe that a long time ago, just like in old pictures, the world was black and white lool
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I used to believe that a long time ago, just like in old pictures, the world was black and white lool
Until I was about 12 I believed that the color in old movies was the way people saw everything back then. Like the slightly off color of 60's and 70's movies I thought people and things just looked like that. Same with black and white movies.
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until i was about 10 i believe adolf hitler's first name was "hitler" and that he had no last name because his parents abandoned him
I used to believe that black and white movies where black and white because in those days there wassnt any colour in the world :-/ and also that Black and White Cows produced Semi Skimmed Milk
When I was little, I used to watch old black-and-white TV with my mom, and I thought that ife was in black and white back when those shows were made ;)
I used to believe that everything in the world was black and white, and that color, in general, was not invented until recently.
I used to think that there were no bombs or casualties in England in World War One!
My Dad watched documentaries about WWI and WWII when I was a kid. The footage was all in black and white, and I thought that the whole world did not exist in color up to a later point.
Also, I once thought that people in photographs were somehow frozen there and continually holding their breath.
Me too,I'm from Africa and until I actually understood what "guerilla warfare" was,I was terrified to go out in the forest for fear of gorillas falling on me like I hear on TV and radio.
My younger brother just three seconds ago asked me what A.D. means. He thought it meant after democracy!!! i about died laughing and told him it meant Anno Domani. He claims our mom told him that but I'm not so sure...
when i was a kid i would look at my moms old pictures that where black and white so i thought the whole world was black and white.
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I used to think the "Cold War" was a war where countries tried to freeze each other to win the war.
When I was a kid I thought that when my parents were kids, the world was black and white and had no color...
I used to think that the Battle of Hastings took place in France, and that Hastings was the English name for the actual battleground!
In second grade my mom and aunt were helping me study for a history test. they both told me that George Washington is called the father of our country not only because he lead the continental army and was our first president, but because while he traveled across America fighting battles, he would sleep with woman all across the country, so he had children all across the country.
I had told this to several friends and teachers over the years. I didn't find out until a college friend called me out on it a couple years ago, and when I talked to my mom about it, she said that she and my aunt were just joking.
When i was little i used to beleive that people from "The Olden Days" were black and white and there was no colour because of old pictures and movies.I just htough that someone inveneted colour and painted everything. i beleived this until i was about 8 when i asked my nan what it was like to live without colour.
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Since he had fought in WWII, I naturally assumed my grandfather had killed Hitler himself.
I used to think that the world was black and white before the 1960's because all the tv shows before that time were in black and white. I just assumed that color hadn't been invented yet.
I used to think that the old days were actually black and white because of the old black and white pictures.
When I was younger I used to watch a lot of old black and white re-run shows and learned from my parents that those shows came out when they were kids so I asked my mom "when did the world have color?" I thought that the whole world was black and white.