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I used to believe Rimming was an actual person that played on every basketball team. When a player would shoot the ball and it would hit the rim, the sports announcer would say “rimming, no!” I would look for the person on the court with that name, always bewildered that I couldn’t ever find him, seeing as how he was in every game I was watching.

When we heard the announcer during the football games our father watched on TV, my brother and I believed that every yard on the football field was as big as the back yard of our house. Football fields were ENORMOUS.

When I was a kid, there was a neighbor's house where they frequently watched wrestling matches on TV. Once the neighbor told me that the object of the wreatling match was to break through the floor of the wreatling ring. For a long time afterwards, any time I saw a wrestling match on TV, I kept waiting for someone to break through that floor into the area below, inside the box-like structure that supported the wrestling ring. For years I watched in vain to see anyone do that, and concluded for a long time that winning a wrestling match must be a quite rare event.

I used to believe that when you paid for something at a store with cash, the clerk would sometimes give you back a smaller amount of money just to be nice. It took a while to figure out the concept of change.

I used to call the ATM a "magic money machine" because I thought it just gave you as much money as you wanted at any time. Fortunately, I learned the dissapointing truth before I opened my first bank account.

I remember when I didn't understand how bank interest worked - when my mum or dad told me that money grew in banks, I always pictured people struggling out of the building with huge 2p coins in their arms!

When my family took a trip to NYC my sister even though she was 15 thought the Waldorf was a remembrance site of a small persons activist site in which a dwarf was cemented to a wall as a punishment for rioting.

i used to believe that every street address of every single house represented a different and distinct country

I read this article in National Geographic. It was about how people in (ancient) Saudi Arabia would remove people's hearts in some ceremony or another. Then, someone came to my Girl Scout meeting. She was telling us about Saudi Arabia. I raised my hand and said something like "Is it true that in Saudi Arabia they take out people's hearts?"

I used to believe that I could dig to China at the beach. For some reason I thought that my plan to dig through how many thousands of miles of rock and burning hot lava would work better if I were 3 inches tall, so I attempted to make a shrinking pition, using milk, crumbled up chocolate chip cookies, and raspberry jam.
What an intelligent child I was.

Ernie Harwell was the announcer for Tiger Baseball until a few years ago. I listened to him during most of my youth.

I used to believe that Ernie Harwell actually knew the towns that people were from when they'd catch foul balls at Tiger Stadium.

A ball would be hit towards the stand and Ernie would say " There's a loooong fly ball and a young man from Constantine Michigan caught that one."

I was always intrigued as to how he was able to figure it out so quickly.

My sister convinced my niece that there was a bridge that went from California to Hawaii, built out of old sunken battle ships. My niece was in her twenties at the time. Now she's a lawyer. (heheheh)

I used to believe that the American baseball team, The Baltimore Orioles, were actually called the Baltimore Oreos, after the chocolate cookies. Somebody told me that it was Oriole, and that an Oriole was a bird. I got confused and thought that the birds were called Oreos.

When I was little my older brother said that pennys where made out of gold and that they were worth a lot of money...So Everytime I got a quarter I would give it to him so he would exchange me with a penny. LATER (a lot of years later) I found out that pennys weren't gold and that I was getting ripped-off.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I was younger I used to believe that like if somthing was $12 then you would just give them a $1 and a $2 bill. Or if somthing was $91 then i would just give them a $9 bill and a $1 bill. Luckily I still don't believe that..

I remember thinking that since George Washinton was the first president, that's why he's on the one dollar bill. Lincoln is on the five, then he must have been the fifth president. Hamilton is on the ten, he must have been the tenth, etc.