When I was seven, we took a family trip from Eastern Canada to Florida. I was told by my parents we had to change planes in Washington (D.C., I found out years later). So I went and checked a map, but the only Washington I could find was Washington State. I could not figure out why we were flying so far out of the way (all the way across America and back) to get to Florida.
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I used to beleive the U.S. was a boy because florida looked like a... you know...
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I used to think all Icelandic people looked like Bjork.
I use to believe that if you dug far enough down into the dirt, you would get to the other side of the world. I think I was about 6 or so.
I used to believe that heaven and Israel were the same place, because they were both important to the bible and whenever my Grandmother visited from Israel, she came from the sky in an airplane and when she left, she left in an airplane.
when i was little i thought vollyball was bollyball
My brother had a map of the United States up on his wall. I knew that we lived in Illinois, and what Illinois looked like on the map. But I thought that ONLY my family lived on that spot on the map, like that was where our house was. And our neighbors across the street lived on the Wisconsin spot. A house next door would be Indiana, stuff like that, even though I knew it was a map of the United States.
I had a friend who thought everywhere outside London was outside England. We lived in London and had a holiday cottage in Derbyshire, and whenever my friend stayed with us there she thought she was in a foreign country.
When I was little, I was told that I should finish my plate, because children were starving in China...
Whenever we ate chinese food, I was convinced I was eating a poor starving child's food!
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When I was little, I thought Transylvania was Pennsylvania and all the vampires and other monsters lived there.
I, up until a few dayse ago, (i'm 12) though 'Secaucus" was a city! I't astualy a primary vote!
i used to think that when u went somewhere in a plane, the place was above u because the plane went up to get there. so i thought all my cousins in california lived above us just out of my vision and i would always look up and wave at them. then i learned that the earth is round. i also wondered how u would get to places that were on a level below u.
when i was in primary school i was told thats the school had bats flying around the place. At the time i thought they meant wooden rounders bats that had wings and could flyand thought it rather strange. Years later i remembered this and realised how stupid i was.
I used to believe all countries besides the USA were 3rd world countries. When I was 10 years old I'd talk to people from Britain and Canada online and wonder how they had access to the internet.
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I used to believe that clouds were other continets seen fron down side. So people actually lived in the upper side of the clouds.
I thought that soccer moms were moms that played soccer!
I used to think the logo for The National Lottery in the UK was not of a hand with crossed fingers, but some kind of weird-looking, sinister fish.
i used to live in philippines and when i was 9yo. my mom told me that we were going live in canada and i thought that we have to go on a spaceship to travel. i used to believe that each planet is a country!
There was a nuclear power plant near my grandparent's farm. I though it was a really tall baseball stadium.
I used to believe Finland didn't really exist, it was just a make-believe land with a made-up name, because "fin" means "end" in my mother tongue. Also, I heard Santa Claus lived there, and I already knew he wasn't real.