When i was younger i thought that england was the only country in the world that had the internet!! When i was even younger i thought England was the only country in the world! I was terrifed when some from another country came to my house or on the T.V because i thought they were aliens!!!
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When I was younger I thought the farthest place in the world was Sacramento California. I have no clue why, I was from Arizona and Sacramento isn't THAT far from me.
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up until the age of 19, i thought that spanish food consisted of tacos and burritos until i realized that spain has a culture and culinary world much separate from mexico and latin america
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I used to believe that money was tasty stuff that people got from their parents. I got quite confused and ill after trying a five quid note
When I was little I thought that you could print out your own money from the computer. I never understood why my mom said that we didn't have the money to buy me a toy at the time.
When I was in first grade, we learned about Native Americans, and how it wasn't proper to call them "Indians." At the time, my dad worked with a woman who was Indian (as in, from India), and he made some reference to her being Indian. However, I had never heard of the country of India, and I got really mad at my dad, saying "No! You have to call her Native American!" He kept insisting that, no, she wasn't Native American, she was Indian. I just thought he was being really mean and ignorant.
From 1909 to 1958 American pennies had Abraham Lincoln on the front and wheat on the back. (They now have the Lincoln Memorial on the back.) When I was growing up in the '80s, my mom would sometimes find "wheat pennies" in change she recieved. She kept them in a jar and told me they were special since they were old. I thought they were called "weak pennies" because they were old. I also though the wheat magically appeared on the back of a penny when it got old enough.
Not soooo long ago, i used to believe that Thailand was the place where all ties grew, on bushes, and that women picked the ties and the men packed them to ship around the world.
When I was little, and until I was probably 8 or 9 I thought that "Volleyball" was said "Bolleyball." Well, you play with a "ball," right? Ballyball? My mom had to break it to me that it was pronounced with a "v" when I went to try out for the team in grade 4.
Being Canadian, I used to believe that if you went to the United States, the border guard might require you to know the American national anthem ("The Rocket's Red Glare") or the Pledge of Allegiance in order to be admitted.
Oddly, before the time when I remember thinking this, we had lived in Quebec's Eastern Townships near the US border, so we went across the border frequently. I guess my brother and I must have been too young to have to be able to recite...!
When I was little I thought each person was elected individually, so if you liked one presidental canidate and someone else's vice president canidate, you could mix and match. When they announced the winners, everybody who won would get together and work together to run the country.
Oh to be so innocent still...
My dad was a journalist, and so we used to listen to the news on CBC Radio all the time. I was born in New Brunswick and lived there till I was 5. From listening to the news, I somehow gathered that Moncton and Moscow were the same city.
once when i was about 6 or 7, my class went on a field trip to the playground. i was in the sandbox, set on digging a hole to china. one of my classmates joined me, and as we sat across from each other, our separate holes connected and a caught a glimpse of his hand. for the longest time i beleived that i had actually dug all the way to china and that there was another kid in china who had dug a hole to california!
When i was little i was eating cheerios and i said to my dad "there is a picture of your friend on the cheerios box!!" he looked at the box and saw that it was a picture of basketball player Larry Bird.. he finally figured out from me who i was thinking of and told that friend of his that i thought he looked like Larry Bird. Today, about 10 years later, i picked up the phone and he said "hi this is Larry Bird". they will never let me forget this....
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I used to beleive that the state that i lived in was it's own country, and that all the other state's were countries too.
ME and my couzin told her brother that we were from Ireland and we had a language of our own and that grandma held a ceremony for us to become true Irisians. He believed then asked his mom if it was true and we got punished but it was worth it!
When i was about 2-10 (i know its a long time!) i used to think that the world was one big head and that everything on "the head" was lice. when i found out in 5th grade my friends started making fun of me but now if you think about it its kind of funny!
My Grandparents live in England, they always have. I live in the USA, and when I was a little girl I would go to the beach and stare really hard over the Atlantic- right into the horizon. I really believed that I could see England.
When I first moved to Peacehaven I was 6. When we went to London Road in Brighton I used to believe there was a circus at Preston Circus and was so dissapoited when I couldn't see one
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up until about a month ago i found out that new england was NOT a state i was completely shocked i am 16 and have lived on the east coast since i was born i discovered my mistake this year in US history i haven't heard the end of it from my classmates