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When I heard on the news that some on was shot at gunpoint, I thought "Gunpoint" was a place; I wondered why people kept going to Gunpoint.
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I used to think that there were no stores in Kentucky.
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last week on a train i had a conversation with one of my best friends only to discover that at 18years old she still thought that timbuktoo was imaginary yet gotham city where batman lived was real!!
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.
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That if you dug a hole deep enough you would make it to the other side of the wourld.
I used to think that the faces on Mt. Rushmore was a natural phenomenon. Of course, I grew up in Canada so it wasn't like they bore resemblance to the guys on my money.
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When I was a child, I used to believe that USA is a state of Poland, and someday we go there for a trip like we were doing this to Warsaw :)
I used to think that people in the Southern Hemisphere used maps and globes with South on top. Apparently, I'm <a href="http://www.flourish.org/upsidedownmap/">not</a> the only one.
When I was about 7 years old around Christmas time I was I saw the Bay Bridge and I thought they had strung up christmas lights. Later I realized that it was just the head lights and tail lights on the cars. :)
once my dad told me that if one were to dig a deep enough hole, the hole would eventually reach China. for years thereafter, i looked as far over the edge of every hole as i could, hoping to see sliver of blue sky filtering through.
I used to believe that only one part of the world could "work" at a time. For example, the people in America could be running about their day.. but everywhere else was "frozen" until it was their turn. You didn't remember being "frozen," cause it stops your brain from working too.
When I was a young child living in a suburb of Buffalo, New York, I remember being at home with my mother who often listened to the news on the radio. Often they would mention "the White House." Through our living room picture window, I could see a house across the street that was painted white. I thought that was The White House.
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I used to belived that Washington, D.C. was located in Washington state, the same way that New York City is located in New York state.
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i used to belive that California was the United States only and that other states were other countries.
In my early childhood days, of which my memory is vague, the TV show The Honeymooners was still on live, and my parents were big fans of it. That is no doubt why I'd heard of Audrey Meadows, one of its stars. But I wasn't clear whether Audrey Meadows was a person, place ot thing, or whatever. I probably heard her first name more like "Autree", like that might be a kind of tree, perhaps. Meanwhile, in those same days and ongoing to times of my slightly clearer memories, my family often visited the North Carolina mountains, where one of our frequent stops was a Blue Ridge Parkway recreation area called Crabtree Meadows. I perceived that Crabtree Meadows and Audrey Meadows must be similar entities, reinforcing my probable tendency to hear Audrey as "Autree", like it were perhaps a kind of tree. I got to wondering why on most of our mountain trips we would go to Crabtree Meadows, but we never went to Audrey Meadows, which must be some kind of similar place. It wasn't until I came home from college that I realized who Audrey Meadows was and why I'd heard of her back then, for at that time my parents were again watching The Honeymooners, then in reruns.
When I was about 4 I used to think that "China" was a bad word. I guess it was becuse I heard a child at my pre-school say that if you dug and dug in the ground, there would be China. And sence the middle of the Earth was hot and I thought it was hell or some'm. To summerize that, I thought China was in the middle of the world. Well one night at dinner, my Grandapa said, "Do you know what happens when you flush the toilet?" "What?" "It goes to CHINA!" And so I slaped him really hard. "You said a bad word!!" I got a lession on China affter that.
I grew up in a suburb of Walsall, but the local accent pronounces it a lot like Warsaw - so when on the news there was talk of tanks moving on Red Square, I got really scared there was gonna be a riot outside my front foor
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When I look at the map of Mexico, I thought that "Michoacan" was a Spanish word for "Michigan" and was derived after it.
When I was about 4 years old, we had a globe that had all the countries in different colors to outline their political borders, and it also had a compass that was drawn on the Pacific Ocean next to San Francisco, California. I believed that you could see the different colors and the compass from outer space, or at least from an airplane. When I was five I thought I would finally see the compass because my mom & I flew to the Philippines from San Francisco, and we would be flying over the compass. An hour into the flight, I then had a feeling that the compass didn't exist becuase I kept staring out the airplane window the whole time and I didn't see it.
I used to think that there was a place called "Random". This was the place where all the winners of competitons were decided. Id always hear that the winner would be chosen at random but only figured it out when I was about 10
Having seen a few Diseny films, I concluded yhat America used to be a fantasy land full of beatiful princesses and magic mirrors, and states like Disenyland were still kept like they used to be. I couldn't work out why they gave it all up to become a nation of skater cowboys