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I used to think the president was the richest person in the country

When I was little, my friends and I would make the expedition to "dig to China" atleast twice a year. It was not until my pre-teen years(or maybe older) that I made the Geographical connection that China was on the otherside of the planet. Did you know that? Anyways, my understanding of China was a place deep, deep, deep under the ground that contained treasures and mainly...."china"....you know the kind your grandmother has on her wall that is taken down for special dinners. I really believed that I was going to be the one to find it.

i used to believe that the mainland(i lived on the isle of wight) was all made of concrete and there were no trees or grass there but lots and lots of cars and people.

Until I was seven I lived in Amsterdam, and any time we traveled out of the city, I used to believe we were going to the Netherlands, not knowing that Amsterdam was actually in the Netherlands. It's our national capital, actually.

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whenever we watched football on tv i used to think that the abbreviation "og" [own goal] was some wierd Scandanavian surname and one day i was at the house of this boy i really liked with his mates and football was on and the text said "Tanner og" and i said look he is another of that bloody og clan, they all laughed thinking it was a joke and so
nobody explained it to me until i moved in with my last partner and he never let me live it down - in other words i didnt know og meant own goal until i was - wait for it - 26 years old.
by then i even understood the offside rule!!!!!!!!

When my sister was in college (I was a great deal younger), she talked frequently of wanting to go to Nassau. I later learned that the place she meant was the capital of the Bahamas, a city I was then unfamiliar with. At the time, I thought she was saying "NASA", meaning she wished to visit the space flight center in Houston. Since she took far less interest in space flight than I did, I wondered why she seemed so keen on visiting the space flight center.

When I was around 6 or 7 my family went on a family outing to the bowling alley. My older brother and I developed a habit of crossing the line when throwing the ball. My mother, in an effort to teach us to play the game correctly, told us that little midgets would come out of the gutters and steal us if we kept crossing the line. I imagined in my mind that little oompa loompas would come out and grab me if I crossed the line.

When I was in primary school in England, there was a boy from Africa who joined half way through the term. He was always late and I told my mum it was because he had to come from Africa every day!

I used to believe that Miami Beach was up on a mountaintop. When we were kids, taking our annual summer vacation in Florida, we'd fly. It made sense that going through the clouds meant it was way up there, indeed.

I was about seven or eight when Jimmy Carter won the Presidency of the USA. All the media coverage leading up to the election referred to, "The run for the White House." Well the bit that confused me was - why didn't a younger fitter man win?

I used to believe that names of places, such as towns and counties, were actually printed on the groud (Such as in fields), as they are on road atlases and maps.

I remember going down to London one day and when we got close on the motorway i was looking in the fields for

'LONDON'

to be printed out in them with big black letters.

but i never did see it :-( lol

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When I first learned that gold was very soft and that pirates used to bite their coins to ensure that the loot was composed of real gold, I ran around the house biting every metal object I could find. If the item bent when I bit into it, I made sure to inform my mother of its enormous monetary value. I am sure she was delighted to find me gnawing on bracelets and spoons.

when i was little i would watch the news with my parens, and it would say so and so was held at gunpoint. i would always hear that i and wanted to know why people were going to gunpoint. so one day i asked my parents if we could go to gunpoint. and there were shocked. they said why do you want to go to gunpoint? and i said well because they show people on the tv that go to gunpoint. so they had to explain what gunpoint was. i didn't want to go anymore...laugh out loud.... :)

I used to have a strange belief that everything would happen at least once in your life, like a bee sting, or a house fire, or anything, it was only until i once read the chances of winning the lottery that it became apparent that this is not true!

As a child I used to listen to radio programs. Often the host would indicate that contestants were chosen at 'random'. I spent hours looking through the atlas trying to find out where
'random' was located. I finally for some reason came to the conclusion that it was somewhere near Rochester.

when i was very young, when me and my family went to Bangladesh by plane from UK, I used to believe that we were flying to the moon and bangladesh was on the moon.