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My sister used to think that the cooling towers of power staions were cloud factories
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I used to think that the poster of Margaret Thatcher on the door of the Conservative Party office was in fact the lady that lived there.
When I was younger, I always thought that when the bank held money for you, they put it in a little drawer for you until you wanted it.
I could never understand why it was that whatever bank my mum went to to get money, *her* drawer always used to be just beneath where the cashier sat... maybe she had a special account or something.
(i am a Chinese)When i was small,i used to believe every westeners are rich and beauty.When my school teacher told me there are beggers in the west,i was very upset.
when I was 6 my Dad went to visit India and when he came back he told me about the people living in mud houses.
Our house in NZ was near the water and when we drove over the bridge and the tide was out my parents would point out the mudflats to me. They were certain that they were there but I always looked for the little mud houses and the poor people that must have lived in them and I could never see them...I felt sorry for them for a long long time...
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I used to believe that Paris was the capital of London and Italy was the capital of France.
When i was about 3 or 4 i thought that Legoland was situated just past a local factory complex. As in real life its situated in Denmark. I think its because i fell asleep just as we past the factory, and then woke up 4 hours later at Legoland. And also that when you went through the gates you got blown up to gigantic proportions or the world shrunk. I didnt realize that all them buildings there were minitures made of Legos.
I belived that the only countrys in the world outside Sweden was USA or Sovjet! I couldn´t understand that it was true that Sovjet was gone when my teacher told me. And that was 3 years after it fell. :-)
I belief that it was Ingvar Carlsson who killed Olof palme The swedish primeminstry only becurse Ingvar want to be the new primeministry
I was born and raised in Hawaii. Since we were taught that Columbus discovered America, and I knew that Hawaii was part of America, I wondered which beach he landed on, and if it was very close to my house.
I used to think that if you paid by cheque you did not have to pay from your savings to buy something. When my mother said she could not afford something I told her to pay by cheque.
As I child growing up in the seventies in south east London I would see NF sprayed everywhere. I used to wonder why there were so many Nottingham Forrest supporters in London. I think my mum must have told me that's what it meant as it really stands National Front which was an obnoxious far-right political party.
When I was young I couldn't understand why on earth my mum would want to stand on a bridge with three strangers once a week - well that's what I thought she did when she "played Bridge"!
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I used to believe that a hat trick in football was achieved when a player scored a goal with their head!
While driving to Florida, my little sister asked, "Mommy, is your Ami the same as Mi-ami?"
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At about age 7 I thought one could see the people running around on a map, if one looked hard enough.
When I was a child aged 5, I used to beleive the President of the United States was Donald Dragon. It was after I asked my mother if she knew who the President was and she said, "I don't know, who do you think it is?" that I discovered it was, actually, Ronald Reagan.
Whenever I saw pictures of the Tower of London, it was featured with Tower Bridge. Because my attention was drawn to the bridge, I thought Tower Bridge was the Tower of London. I figured the prisoners were kept in one tower and the Crown Jewels in the other. At age 36, my wife and I went to London to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary. When hopped in a cab to go on the tour of the Tower of London, the driver drove over Tower Bridge, right past both towers. I'm like, "Where's this guy going?" My wife, who had been to London several times before was kind enough to enlighten me.
My hometown is called Nuneaton. Up until about eight years old I always thought is was 'The Neaton'. I only realised otherwise when I entered a colouring competition and had to submit my address, asking my parents how to spell 'The Neaton'.
I believed that Mongolia was where mongoloids came from. I pictured all these mongoloids raiding villages on the steepe on horseback with fire and sword. I figured they were only nice and gentle in America because they were outnumbered.