Until I was about 9 I believe that we used to go to "Corvall" for our holidays... wasn't until I actually bothered to look at a postcard and wondered where Cornwall was...???
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When I was 5 or so my father took up curling at the local rink. For the life of me I couldn't figure out why he would go, since he was bald......As you can tell, I'm not a sports fan.
i thought an ATM machine was something which gave free money!!
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When I was little, I was convinced that Europe was pronounced like "your rope", and "Yurip (how Europe actually IS pronounced)" was a country within Europe.
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When I was quite young, I was sure the
Dow Jones Av. was actually the Dodge owned.
I did not know the difference until I saw
it in print.
When I was a little girl growing up in Georgia in the 1970's, my Daddy told me that President Jimmy Carter was a close personal friend of his. (He was from our own home state!) Daddy convinced me that we were going to be invited to the White House, and that I was going to play in the backyard with little Amy on her swingset.
Someone told me if you dug and dug and dug you'd eventually reach Australia!!!
In 2nd grade, our teacher began every morning with a discussion of current events. One day she said that the topic for the next morning would be the Watergate hearings. That night I asked my mom what Watergate was, and she replied "It's a dirty trick by the Democrats to make the Republicans look bad."
My teacher wasn't too impressed with my answer.
My big sister was told by my older brother that our home county of the Isle Of Wight, England was the designated target for three nuclear warheads, should war be declared. She realised he was lying when she was 20 years old. Studying for a degree.
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I grew up in Seattle, Washington. I use to think that it rained everywhere in the world like it rained in Seattle... Every where BUT Hawaii.
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having learned that the world is a huge globe with millions of people on it, i used to believe that every single thing existed at least twice. my best example for this, and i think that's also where i got the idea from, was our washing machine:
i was told that we were not the only family that had this particular washing machine, and so i concluded that there was also at least one family who had the same clothes in it, at the same time, washing it at the same degree...
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I used to believe that ScotLand was on an airplane. My grandma would always go to the airport to go to ScotLand so I just assumed Scotland was on an Airplane.
when i was younger i used to believe that space was near spain! so i imagined spain to be just a bull ring! and that if you looked up into the sky you could see space!
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up until about 6 years ago i thought everton was in london!
because of the song "we, the three kings of orient are", a coworker thought "orientar" was a place until recently.
When my brother and I were young we lived in an apartment complex with our mom called "Pheasant Ridge." Well one time during class in grade school my brother proudly announced to the class during a presentation that we lived at "Peasant Ridge!"
Up Until 7yrs Old I used To Think President Regan Used To Be The President Of The World.
When i was young i used to hear the term 'Midlands' on the local news and imagine it was a vast, sprawling desert area somewhere the other side of the world. Little did i realise it was simply the name for my local area.
You know the baseball team, The New York Yankees?....well i used to believe that they were the same as the colonial yankees and that an actual baseball team was fighting in the Revolutionary war! i also believed that the war wasnt fighting, but a big huge Sport-a-thon!.....at the time i was 6...well actually now i am a Huge Yankees fan and i know what really went on in the Revolutionary war!
As a boy living in Brazil, I used to believe that in Portugal there were no cows. They didn't have there any of our animals: the araras, the crocodiles, the jaguars...