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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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When I was younger, to while away the hours, a few friends and I dug holes in the ground to see how deep we could go, well I was totally convinced that one day if we dug deep enough (like, just a couple of feet!!), that we would dig right through to Australia, imagine my disappointment when I realised that was never going to happen, by the way, I'm going to Australia next year, by......PLANE hahaha ( do you think someone in Australia might have thought the same thing and think they could dig through to Britain??) I wonder....
I grew up in southern long island, New York, and went to the beach a lot. The horizon of one particular beach I went to a lot had a bit of land in the far distance. I knew that England was across the ocean, and I assumed that land in the distance was england. When i was 4, i almost drowned trying to swim there ( i wanted to meet the Queen so badly!). My brother saved me and crushed my beliefs by telling me the land was not england; it was staten island and queens. go figure.
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i used to believe that when the sun went down, it actually went down into the earth over in japan, and that's why it was called the land of the rising sun
i used to believe that at Picadilly Circus, there was actually a circus. i persuaded my mum to take me there when I was five, and i was so upset that the circus was not there, i refused to speak to my mum for a week, cos i was convinced that she had told the circus to go away.
When I was younger I thought the farthest place in the world was Sacramento California. I have no clue why, I was from Arizona and Sacramento isn't THAT far from me.
Not soooo long ago, i used to believe that Thailand was the place where all ties grew, on bushes, and that women picked the ties and the men packed them to ship around the world.
Being Canadian, I used to believe that if you went to the United States, the border guard might require you to know the American national anthem ("The Rocket's Red Glare") or the Pledge of Allegiance in order to be admitted.
Oddly, before the time when I remember thinking this, we had lived in Quebec's Eastern Townships near the US border, so we went across the border frequently. I guess my brother and I must have been too young to have to be able to recite...!
My dad was a journalist, and so we used to listen to the news on CBC Radio all the time. I was born in New Brunswick and lived there till I was 5. From listening to the news, I somehow gathered that Moncton and Moscow were the same city.
once when i was about 6 or 7, my class went on a field trip to the playground. i was in the sandbox, set on digging a hole to china. one of my classmates joined me, and as we sat across from each other, our separate holes connected and a caught a glimpse of his hand. for the longest time i beleived that i had actually dug all the way to china and that there was another kid in china who had dug a hole to california!
I used to beleive that the state that i lived in was it's own country, and that all the other state's were countries too.
When i was about 2-10 (i know its a long time!) i used to think that the world was one big head and that everything on "the head" was lice. when i found out in 5th grade my friends started making fun of me but now if you think about it its kind of funny!
My Grandparents live in England, they always have. I live in the USA, and when I was a little girl I would go to the beach and stare really hard over the Atlantic- right into the horizon. I really believed that I could see England.
When I first moved to Peacehaven I was 6. When we went to London Road in Brighton I used to believe there was a circus at Preston Circus and was so dissapoited when I couldn't see one
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up until about a month ago i found out that new england was NOT a state i was completely shocked i am 16 and have lived on the east coast since i was born i discovered my mistake this year in US history i haven't heard the end of it from my classmates
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I used to believe that there were two sides of the world, because the maps were flat. I always wondered when we were going to learn about the other side.
i used to believe that great britain was the whole world
when i was small about 5 or 6. i used to believe that i actually live in a planet not a country. when people around me tell me that there need to go to USA, Canada and other country i used to believed that they went there by rokets not plane.
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I used to believe that london, paris, venice, and switzerland were all cities in France.
I grew up learning that Alaska and Hawaii were the two newest US ststes, both becoming states in 1959. I never had any trouble realizing that they were real places before they became states. That might have something to do with the fact that they are disconnected form the rest of the US. Later, I learned that before Alaska and Hawaii, New Mexico and Arizona had been the newest states, becoming states in 1912. Then, I somehow envisioned, for quite some time, that before 1912 there had been a giant bottomless hole in the Earth where New Mexico and Arizona were later to come into existence as states.
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I used to believe that traveling in cognito was a place in Africa or somewhere.