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I used to think that it was snowy all the time in Russia.
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I used to believe that skyscrapers were people that went on top of buildings and scraped the sky because people couldn't see over the clouds.
Aselina Meribel Carranza
I used to think that Australians ride kangaroos to school
I used to believe that our house was the center of the universe.
Trisha Gaurav
I used to think that all Chinese people looked like panda bears...
I used to think that Australia and Austria were the same place
pianist
I used to think that paying someone's bail means you pay to get them out of prison forever. Like even if you were sentenced to life in prison you could buy your way out.
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This is quite similar to the belief about gunpoint being a physical place, but when I first heard about certain items being sold "on the black market" on the news one day, I believed that the black market was an actual place. I imagined it to be a famous and popular marketplace somewhere in the world, just like any other market in a big city. When I found out that it was used to sell many illegal items I asked my mother why the police didn't just go there and shut it down, since everyone knew which city it was in.
Anonymous
When i was a kid i thought that there was an English town called "Lestershire" and an entirely different town called "Leicestershire" that is pronounced the way it's spelled.
Julia
I used to think that lesbians were people that came from Lebenon and that people from germany were called germs,
Hera
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I used to think Cleveland was a Scandinavian country like Finland and Iceland, and the capital of Georgia was Atlantis.
Maryland was actually a huge amusement park, i.e. Merry-Land, like Disneyland.
Julianne
I thought you could get banned from checking out books in a library if you accidently rip a page. Whenever I'd rip a page accidently, I would be scared when we had to return them, thinking I will never be allowed to check a book out again. Luckily that didn't happen!
Freddy
I believed that they had polar bears in poland until I went there and asked "Wher's the polar bears?"
Mike
I used to believe that in United States all the buildings will fall because when I was child I saw the terrific 9/11 in the TV and I had a trauma.
Adrián
Me and my best friend used to think Warsaw was pronounced "War-sah" until one of our polish friends told us how it was really pronounced
Emily
When my mom told me people from poland were called poles, i thought they were literal poles.
Brianna
I thought Deutschland and the Netherlands were the same place.
Emily
I thought that wars and battles were the same thing, and that conflict between countries were all just settled with one big fight.
Mark
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I used to believe the UK wasn't really free. I always heard that the US was special because it was a "free country", and learning about the American Revolution confused me as well, so I assumed the UK still wasn't "free"
Freedom
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