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I used to think Hungary and Turkey were the same country... I have no idea where that came from...

My dad watched a lot of football when I was little. Although it didn't interest me much, one phrase stuck in my mind. Whenever the Dolphins were playing, I always wondered why the announcer kept talking about his "ammie". "My ammie scored a touchdown". "My ammie fumbled". Etc. I wondered if this was a nickname for his grandmother, and what she had to do with football.

When I was little, I thought when my mother went into a grocery store and paid for a drink, the change that came out of the cashier box was my mother's own money that went in. Like my mom's name was labeled on one of a million little rows of money just for her. And everyone had their own money. There wasn't money that everyone had touched. only money that my mom had ever touched. weird. HAHA!!

My dad has always rooted against the New York Yankees baseball team. Until well into my 20s, I thought the the symbol on the Yankees hats was some sort of evil Nazi sign. It wasn't until I focused on a Yankees hat someone was wearing during a 45-minute subway ride that I realized it was an "N" and a "Y"!

OK, it needs some explain for the beginning. In polish, telephone exchange is called "centrala". I'm from Poland and in my early childhood several times I watched cartoons with polish dubbing, where the character called phone and asked "centrala?" Each time I thought that was asking for the name of the town the receiver was in, because "centrala" sounded for me just as the name of the town, like i.e "Warszawa" (Warsaw). Few years later I've learnt what does "centrala" really means, but before that, I seriously believed there's somewhere town called Centrala and I had several funny situations with this, i.e. I was sitting on the toy motorcycle, playing that I'm riding it, and when some aunt asked me jokely where I'm going, i replied "to the Centrala". Boy, you should to see their looks when they heard that =)

When I was little, I used to believe that the Leaning Tower of Piza was actually the Leaning Tower of Pizzas. I would always ask my mom how it stayed there and why nobody just ate it!

i play blueberry hill with my friends and when i was about 4 i went looking for blueberry hill.unfortunatly i aws looking in my back yard.=)

i used to think that "waldo" was the w. in george w. bush. thanks dad

In 1985 Boris-mania started in Germany when 17-year-old Boris Becker won Wimbledon for the first time. During the tournament my father always told me "Boris is in the quarter-final", "Boris is in the semi-final" and so on. I had no idea how tennis tournaments were organized, so I believed quarter final, semi final and final were all the ranks a player could reach in his entire career. I thought Boris was very successful reaching this in two weeks at the age of 17!!!

By the way, I believed his opponent (Kevin Curran from South Africa) was called Curren Curren.. ;)

When I was very little I lived in a Place Called Mill Woods but we moved to where I live now And I used to think (when I was about 4-8 that Mill Woods was an actual wood and I used to live in a tree!

Until today I believe that the white house was the U.S. capitol. last summer i was in D.C. and got to go into the Capital Building....i remeber telling my friends i visited the white house. i'm a loser

My grandmother used to live in a small town in northern California named McCloud. Because of my Dad's work schedule, the only time we could make the trip to visit her was in the wintertime. The town is up in the mountains, and we'd drive past lots of snow and fog to get there. I was sure we were actually driving up into the clouds to visit her. There was always about 8 feet of snow on the ground, which fit with my notion that clouds were really cold. And after all, the town was even named McCloud!

I used to believe that there was a place called Gunpoint. Lots of times when my parents where watching the news, a report would come on saying that people were being robbed........at Gunpoint, I turned to my Dad and said "Daddy, I don't want to go to Gunpoint, people get robbed there" only then was the real meaning of the word explained to me. It's still a favourite story with my Mum

I used to believe…

That george bush was a bush not a person

I never realized as a child that on a golf course, the hole was just a cup. I thought that each hole was a tube, and they all led to a building where the golf balls were collected.

I used to believe that the state of nebraska was just and urban myth. It had never occured to me at all why anyone would want to live there. I thought it was a HUGE government conspiracy, and I was the only one who knew the truth. I used to secretly black it out with my pen whenever I saw the darn thing on a map. and when people would ask me what the heck I was doing I would say something like - You dont know what your saying! You like to eat shoe-laces! Thats why you dont have any!- and then when they looked down at their feet I would run away.