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When I was young (probably around three or four) I thought there were two Hollywoods, one in Miami and the other in San Francisco. I have no idea where I got this, but I think it was because my mom read a lot of magazines like People and I liked to look at maps. But I'm not sure about that.

Mike

When I was in first grade, my teacher taught us about the equator. She explained that it was an invisible line circling the earth. However, she had quite a thick southern accent. I thought she said there's an invisible lion (yes, the animal) circling the earth. I even raised my hand and asked her again! For quite a while I believed that there was an invisible lion running around and around the earth. Too funny!

Kris

I have no idea why, but until I was five or so, I thought that there were two Hollywoods, one in Miami and the other in San Francisco. I thought you could only shoot movies in those two cities. I don't know where I got this, but I know I liked to read maps, that may be where I got this.

Mike

Until junior high, I always thought of Africa as one whole country with lots of states. No one told me otherwise till the day I answered a question about what was the biggest country in the world. I said it was a tie between Russia and Africa.

Vella Van Jaun

I live in Arkansas, and at my preschool, there was a US map hanging on the wall. My state was green and the trees are green. Texas was purple.. my family and I went on a vacation to TX, and I asked my mom, "why aren't the trees purple?" I thought that colored map was what the US looked like from a space ship!

Sydney

up until i was 9, i used to believe that the Grand Canyon was in Downtown Manhattan. ( I live in the Bronx)...i used to ask my mom all the time if can go see it cuz it was only a train ride away....man i was soo disappointed to learn it was in Arizona...i cried.

Not a smart child

I used to believe that England was in the Moon.
I am from Brazil!

Anon

When I was little, I didnt realize the Middle East existed. I would watch Aladdin and think it was set somewhere in Asia or in a land that the Disney company made up for their movies. I didnt realize it was actually supposed to be a place on Earth.

Lily

I thought "Made in China" meant that was the material of the product. So naturally, I thought china was the most versatile material.

Ava

I used to beleive that the world was flat until I got into the fifth grade and my teacher told us that that wasn't true. I felt so dumb!

Melanie

When i was about 3 years old i thought that St Patricks Cathedral in Melbourne was Disneyland

Maxine Milton

I used to believe that Mexico and my family was in the sky, because we had to take a plane to visit them.

Kara

In the early 80's, I remembered there was a huge campaign to the save the world from hunger such as the song "We are the world," and I also remember all the talk about space exploration. So when they had can food drives at my elementary school, I assumed that they were sending the food by rocket to Ethopia which was located on the Moon.

Anon

When I was little I had heard the phrase "digging a hole to China." I have no idea where I heard this phrase from...but it stunned me. So...to see if it was really doable I took to the backyard and started to dig. I got about 1.5 feet, decided that no one could dig to China, and so gave up.

Anon

When I was little I used to believe that I had made up the country Italy (random I know, I have no idea where it came from). I was always surprised if other people knew about it, and I was only eight when I finally sussed it. I was devastated.

Someone-Who-Will-Remain-Anonymous

I used to believe that there were only two languages: english and spanish. Because of that, I thought there were only two countries: The U.S and Spain! I also thought Spain was about the size of Africa!

Plankicorn

I used to believe the Earth was just the town I lived, in and that's it!

Richard

Like a fellow contributor i also believed that the Elgin Marbles were big and round , but worse still at the age of 36 we travelled to Scotland on Holiday in our camper van. We went to the small town of Elgin, an then i wandered around trying to find where these famous marbles were housed. Eventually the woman at Tourist information informed me that they were in LONDON

Not this time

when i was 5 i listened to the news on the radio and was tranfixed by the war with turkeys and greese. Boat loads of turkeys were arriving in greese intent on war.i was worried about the messs the turkeys would get into with all that oil on their wings.
when I was much older, I went on a Greek holiday and realised i had got it all wrong,

susan