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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

Ever since I was a baby my parents flew to Guatemala every year for vacation. By the time I was 3 yrs old my parents would always ask, especially in front of family members and friends, "Where is Guatemala?" Well....my response was "Up there!" and point my finger to sky and [i]everyone[/i] would laugh!!! Since the plane always went up I always had this feeling that Guatemala was located on top of a cloud. Yeah...afterward I figured it all out and why everyone laughed at me!

Oti

When my family took a trip to NYC my sister even though she was 15 thought the Waldorf was a remembrance site of a small persons activist site in which a dwarf was cemented to a wall as a punishment for rioting.

Michelle Angela K.

I used to beleive that if i dig a hole in the ground i would get to Oz..... i still beleive that is kind of true.

Rachael Sampson

i used to believe that every street address of every single house represented a different and distinct country

matt

I used to believe that I could dig to China at the beach. For some reason I thought that my plan to dig through how many thousands of miles of rock and burning hot lava would work better if I were 3 inches tall, so I attempted to make a shrinking pition, using milk, crumbled up chocolate chip cookies, and raspberry jam.
What an intelligent child I was.

Anon