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I'm not sure where this would go, so I'm putting it here. When I was young, my parents bought a little weather measuring kit - you know, the kind with a wind speed guage, weather vane, etc. It came with a poster of various types of clouds, and what sort of weather they signified. Anyway, one picture had a radio tower on the horizon, its top obscured by the extremely low-hanging clouds. In order to call attention to this, the caption ended with the phrase "Note tower in background." As a result, I thought that the tower was named the Note Tower. So, whenever a relative or family friend would return from a trip, and show us a photo of scenery with a radio tower in it somewhere, I would always say "Oh! Did you go see the Note Tower, too?" And nobody ever had a clue what I was talking about.

romulus

I used to believe that if cities had streets with the same names, those were continuous roadways, so if we we kept driving on Oak Street, we would eventually end up on Oak Street in the next town.

Dennis

When I was a kid, I always though (correctly) that I lived in America. One day I saw a commercial for something that was being held in "The U.S.A." I always thought USA sounded cool and always wanted to live there. Then, in the first grade, I found out I always did.

I still want to move there.

I used to think that the St. Paul's Cathedral was the Capitol building in London, England just like the capitol in Washinton D.C.

Anon

When I was young I loved game shows. When they would announce that something or someone had been picked "at random" I thought random was an actual place.

Anon

I used to think that the South African city, Cape town was actually called Crap Town. I though that this was a bit insulting for the people living there ^_^

Sugarpuff Angel

i used to wonder why the starving children in Africa didn't just swallow air,eat their snot and fingernails.then they wouldn't be hungry!!!

yeah right

andy

I don't know what category this goes in, so I'll put it here. I used to believe that the earth was flat and no matter how my parents tried to convince me I always held firm in my belief that the earth was flat. Whay, I sure didn't see any curves? Not only that, but why aren't people in China falling off since they are supposedly "down" from us? Or people in Antarctica, they aren't down or up from us but on the globe they are down. So why don't they fall off? Eventually Dad convinced me because he is a Physics teacher and knows all about that kind of thing... hahaha. Boy, was I stupid...

I used to disagree with Christopher Columbus

When I was a little kid and had lots of toys and many other house utility things …….all of them with a tag….. made in japan . I believed that japan was the only country in the world that made most of the things and supplied to all the countries . and I used to cherish anything that was made in u.s.a (America} like the schaefer pen ! . and yet believed japan to be the most productive country in the world for other things.

naim

I was told that if you dug a hole deep enough (from the US), that you'd end up in China. I wondered what kids were told in other places, like maybe Africa, but as I've asked people from all over, it seems that they never really thought about it.

Scott

I thought the the white house was really near where I lived and we sometime drove by it on the freeway. It was just a building that had colums in the front.

Paulette

When I was about four or five I thought that the world was divided in two from north to south, and that everything on the 'other side' has an exact copy of everything on 'this side', including myself. I was actually looking forward to growing up so I could travel to the other side and meet my 'clone', see what she's been up to.

Anon

i used to believe that hawaii was on the east coast, near the bahamas, and that europe was directly west of california.

Anon

I used to think that there were no stores in Kentucky.

Erin

I used to think there was a difference between "the whole world" and "the whole wide world" -- the latter being, of course, wider. My cousins had a globe in their house which I understood to be a picture of "the whole world". I figured "the whole wide world" must look like the globe with a kind of small house or cabin attached to it at about the equator.

Eric

That if you dug a hole deep enough you would make it to the other side of the wourld.

Jeff