When I listened to the news and the announcer talked about gorilla warfare in Africa, I pictured hairy gorillas with guns fighting. I wondered where they got the guns and who taught them to shoot.
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I used to believe people that people back then were black and white and couldn't talk.
until the 60's- the whole world was black and white, and it got colorful because of the gas that came out from cars and factories
when I was little I used to believe that in old times the world was black and white because when i saw an old video footage on the tv or an old photograph it was black and white.
When I first saw a black-and-white picture, I thought the world used to be black-and-white, and it changed before I was born.
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I used to wonder why the government didn't just make war illegal..
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I thought there were only four ranks in the army: private, corporal, Seargeant, and General
July 5/2011- This isn't a belief of mine, but one of my mother's oldest & dearest friends was born in 1941, and being a child she imagined war-torn Europe as a bleak, dangerous, crime-ridden city, instead of a whole continent!
Since all television before a certain time was in black and white, I used to think that that time period itself was colorless until some genius came along and invented color.
when i was a kid i used to watch an old black and white tv and i though that before i was born color didn't existed and they had only invented them for real life but they where working on getting tv's with color too
When I was younger I thought that black and white movies were really what people looked like in the past, and we had just evolved to color.
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I used to believe for the longest time that World War 3 had already happened. Hopefully my child self is never right.
I thought Martin Luther King Jr. could fly.
I had a superhero phase, and one day my mom showed me a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. and told me that there were such things as real heroes in the world and that he was one of them.
I thought she meant he was a superhero, so I pictured him flying around, and Martin Luther King Day became the coolest holiday ever to me
Having seen old black and white movies I used to think that the entire world used to be in black and white, like the universe went through a fundamental shift and color magically appeared. It wasn't until later that I realized they were just old cameras
I used to believe that when they said America 'broke away' from England during the American Revolution that we literally took shovels and pitchforks and hacked our continent off of England and then floated away.
When I was little, I used to think my grandparents lived in a black-and-white world from the black-and-white pictures they showed me, and somehow the world turned colorful in the 1980s.
I use to believe that the world use to be black and white then became color in the 60s
Because of movies I used to believe that everything was black and white in the past.
i believed that people in the old days could only see in black and whit because thats how their movies were
I used to believe that the world was black and white when my parents were growing up because of black and white TV shows.