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My sister convinced my niece that there was a bridge that went from California to Hawaii, built out of old sunken battle ships. My niece was in her twenties at the time. Now she's a lawyer. (heheheh)

Unc

When we were children, we used to believv that if we dig a deep hole in the ground, we 'll reach CHINA!

ABDULLAH SAAD

When I was about 6 I thought that Sonoma was the last city. That you could go to other cities through one direction, but if you tried to go the other direction, you would walk off of the end of the earth.

Suzanah

When I was a really little kid, I thought that everyone in the U.S. lived in Ohio (where I lived). I knew there were other states, but I thought people just went there for vacation. I never realised that Ohio was way too tiny for those hundreds of millions of people to live...

Amanda

My father came from a place called "The Heath" in County Laois, Ireland. He used to always tell us we were "Heath Men" which meant we were strong and proud. I always thought he was saying we were "Hate Men" and I would always get angry and smack things when he told us. Curiously, it took him a long time for him to realize what I was hearing.

Brendude

iused to believe that the leaning tower of the pisa was called the leaning tower of pizza!! i believed this until yesterday (24/8/06)

Anon

I lived on the east coast of the US. When I was watching westerns at the movies, I thought the time frame of the story was contempory. I thought if you went "out West", there would be horses, wagons and no automobles and everyone lived like that as in the western movies.

Anon

I used to think that you had to fly on a rocket to get to disney land. I thought this because i believed that other countries were in fact other planets, You'd have to travel across space to get there! I really wanted to go to disney land but never though i could because it was too unsafe and Mum didn't like me doing unsafe things!
Imagine my relief when i discovered that there was only one planet that I needed to travel around

Stephen

After looking at a world map which had Mercator cylindrical projection (the type of maps where the lines of longitude are parallel with each other) in one of my early years in school, I thought that Greenland was more than twice the size as Australia because Greenland is at a high latitude and has been severely stretched out (Australia is actually about three and a half times the size of Greenland). It took me a long time to realise that on those kinds of maps, the distance between the lines of longitude decreases with latitude.

Anon

i used to think that alaska was an island, since it was always inserted at the bottom left on every map of the usa...

jen

i used to believe that every country was a different planet!

bianca

when he was a kid,
he used to believe Germany is called
coz there are many germs.

joanna wang

when i was little i thought that Asia was a little country not a whole continiet (i thought that part of the world was part of europe)...........you can imagin my surprise in 10TH GRADE GEOGRAPHY when i finally learned the truth

silly bee-owch!

I enjoyed watching NFL Football and was amazed that there was a game in New England. I thought the NFL was playing a special game over seas in England. What solidified it for me was that I always heard that it rained a lot in England and this game was being played in the rain. I'm still a little unsure what all makes up "New England" since it's not one of the 50 states.

Still a bit confused

I used to believe that other countries are in the sky.
Because i thought air planes are going to the sky, and never come back.

Isuru and Hisashi

I used to believe that when someone won "a trip around the world" (like on a game show) it would take the rest of their life because there were so many places they would be visiting and the world was so big...so I thought.

Dianne