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I believed that they had polar bears in poland until I went there and asked "Wher's the polar bears?"
Mike
I used to believe that in United States all the buildings will fall because when I was child I saw the terrific 9/11 in the TV and I had a trauma.
Adrián
Me and my best friend used to think Warsaw was pronounced "War-sah" until one of our polish friends told us how it was really pronounced
Emily
When my mom told me people from poland were called poles, i thought they were literal poles.
Brianna
I thought Deutschland and the Netherlands were the same place.
Emily
I thought that wars and battles were the same thing, and that conflict between countries were all just settled with one big fight.
Mark
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I used to believe the UK wasn't really free. I always heard that the US was special because it was a "free country", and learning about the American Revolution confused me as well, so I assumed the UK still wasn't "free"
Freedom
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I used to think it was illegal to speak German in Germany because of World War Two.
Anonymous
I used to think public was a section of Boston
top belief!
I used to believe the world was a horrible place full of selfish people, hypocrites, liars and murderers. Now I know the world is only like that if you look at it that way.
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I used to think when you lost balloons, they would go to balloon land. I thought my balloons would be happier there, so every time I got a balloon I let it go, thinking it would fly to balloon land. And sometimes I'd bring it home, and let it go from my balcony. I began to think as balloons as a separate species. I wanted to send a note along with one and see if the leader of balloon land would write back to me, but then I got worried that an evil balloon might get ahold of it and take my mom to balloon land.
Don't worry, I'm normal now.
I remember sitting in the car, looking out the window, thinking that the world was just a big old doll house and we were the dolls.
I used to believe that the world is a wonderful place full of great people, a world where good people are rewarded for being honest and gentle, a world where I could be happy.
Kamil
I used to think that countries were states and states were countries.
Rachel
when i was 2 or 3, my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins were always talking about going to Miami. I thought they said "My Ami" so i always wondered why I didn't have my own "ami" to go to.
amy
I thought Turkey was ruled by a turkey chancellor. To me, Turkey was a peaceful country with a lot of shepherds, and all of their sheep were from France. I had one snafuous understanding of the world when I was little
Romania
I used to think Romania and Transylvania were one and the same. All of Romania was apparently Transylvania, and they had a booming movie industry. I thought it was the same country that went by two different names.
Ironically, friends who don't know this call me Romania
When I was about 5, my father told me that while it was night time in Spain (where we're from), it was daytime in Japan, and vice versa. I thought that was impossible!
Nina
I used to think that gunpoint was a place as well. I also used to think that the Everglades was a place that smelled really good because it had the word "Glade" in it
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When I was younger, my father travelled a lot. He once told me that he was going to Blackpool. I thought that it was a pool that had got so dirty that the water had turned black and because nobody wanted to clean it, they made it a tourist attraction.
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