when i was 3 i used to beleive dollars were paper so i i would color on them and my mom will put me on time out . then when i realized it was realy money i felt stupid lol.
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As a child, after I found out that "urine" is the "proper" word for pee, but before anyone had told me how to spell it, I was studying maps. I looked at maps of various places, including the great lakes region. When I first saw Lake Huron on a map, I thought h-u-r-o-n might be the way to spell that new word, urine, that I'd recently learned, so I really wondered about Lake Huron. I was well learned enough by then to think it extremely unlikely that there was literally a giant lake of pee there between Michigan and Ontario. But I thought the lake must have been named derogatorily by someone who perceived something inpure or unaesthetic about its waters. Even though this was a confusion on my part, it might have just given me a head start for later being aware of water pollution!
When I was about eight, since basically all my parents watched was the news, I thought that the definition of politics was old guys in suits that argued about what was in law textbooks. My mom later explained it when I was ten.
when I was about 8, me and my friends believed we could dig a hole to China, or at least South Africa (dont ask why South Africa, I really dont know)so we would spent all of our time at lunch trying to dig a hole to escape the school yard to go to China and everyday, we would start a new hole because our hole got covered up. hey, it helped pass the time.
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my bro used to belive there were smurfs in the atms passing out money
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When I was little I used to believe that there was actually a little man in the ATM booths sitting there operating the money watching a small tv.
I used to believe that Gunpoint was an actual place (i.e. town, city, state, etc.). If u think about it though, it's logical. "hostages held at gunpoint" "tourists held at gunpoint, then shot". I would always wonder why people would continue to go there.
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I used to think we lived in America.
When i was about 5 I used to believe that Broken Hill was a broken hill.
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im from new zealand and n.z is pretty much just two large islands (north island & south island) i lived in the north island, when i was about 5-6 i thought that jesus lived in the south island with the queen.... i didint relise that the world is some-what larger than n.z
I used to live in Canada, so I never really learned about American states until I actually moved there around the time I was 10. I thought that Washington DC was a state and that Virginia and Maryland were just cities in it.
When I was a child, i used to believe that i could see to the Magician Kings, on a terrace behind my house
When very young, I believed that Great Britain must be the largest country in the world, because it was actually made up of fours different countries.
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being an american, i didn't know too much about britian and it's three seperate countries in one country thing. i assumed that all of britian was called england, and i also assumed anyone who called the ocuntry Britian was wrong or weird. i would always correct people who talked about british things and say, "no, it's english!!" So one day in school, when the teacher referred to britian on a map and explained the countries thing, i told her it was all england. i eventually got in a bit of trouble for talking back. go figure.
I used to belive that the world was a box and when people say your going to fall off the edge i stand still for hours.
I used to think that checks were actual money, and that you could get them for free, so I used to wonder why my mom didn't just get lots of checks and pay with things that way. I never understood why she would always sigh and say "I have no cash, I'll have to write a check."
I moved here from New York, and on our way down to North Carolina, my parents thought it would be funny to scare us. My mom told us that NC didn't have ketchup and they had blue milk. At the age of 8 that was almost like the end of the world.
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That everything was free. You paid for nothing, money was just to look nice.
i used to believe that the "team fouls" thingy on the basketball scoreboard was the number of fouls that the WHOLE team did.. like if all five players beat up on an opponent. i imagined lots of doggy piles. i remember noticing that their were so many more team fouls than personal fouls, and wondered why i didnt remember seeing any.
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When i was little i thought casualty was a big hospital in london