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i used to believe that my brother lived at the bottom of my sand pit. He actually lived in Australia, but my dad told me that if i could dig all the way through the the sand, then the earth itself, i'd actually come out in Australia, and i'd be able to see my brother. I spent many an afternoon digging and digging, but i never found him.

Heat

The maps where they put all of the continents out flat really threw me off. I thought that all of the continents [1/4 of the globe] were on one side and the other side was all ocean [3/4 of the globe]. That's where all the desert islands were, and that's why is was so hard to get to china

Alandra

I used to think that Berkeley (California, that is; my home town) and America were the same place. When we went to see relatives in Minnesota, I asked my parents, "When are we going back to America?"

Kdees

when i was 4 my mom told me we lived in Indiana and i would tell people we lived in Diana

Anon

When I was five or six, we moved to Devon from Manchester, and to make it more appealing, my father told me it never rained in Devon and that ice-cream was free. When we were packing I told my mother to leave my coats as I wouldn't need them. I was so cute then.

Chris Smith

I used to believe until a couple of months ago that Bulgaria was a fictional country, because that was where the horrible king and queen lived in the film 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'.

Sparkle Kitty

My sister used to think that the cooling towers of power staions were cloud factories

jozef

when I was 6 my Dad went to visit India and when he came back he told me about the people living in mud houses.

Our house in NZ was near the water and when we drove over the bridge and the tide was out my parents would point out the mudflats to me. They were certain that they were there but I always looked for the little mud houses and the poor people that must have lived in them and I could never see them...I felt sorry for them for a long long time...

Frosty

I used to believe that Paris was the capital of London and Italy was the capital of France.

Anon

When i was about 3 or 4 i thought that Legoland was situated just past a local factory complex. As in real life its situated in Denmark. I think its because i fell asleep just as we past the factory, and then woke up 4 hours later at Legoland. And also that when you went through the gates you got blown up to gigantic proportions or the world shrunk. I didnt realize that all them buildings there were minitures made of Legos.

Jolly green giant

I belived that the only countrys in the world outside Sweden was USA or Sovjet! I couldn´t understand that it was true that Sovjet was gone when my teacher told me. And that was 3 years after it fell. :-)

Krickan

I was born and raised in Hawaii. Since we were taught that Columbus discovered America, and I knew that Hawaii was part of America, I wondered which beach he landed on, and if it was very close to my house.

geoclueless

Whenever I saw pictures of the Tower of London, it was featured with Tower Bridge. Because my attention was drawn to the bridge, I thought Tower Bridge was the Tower of London. I figured the prisoners were kept in one tower and the Crown Jewels in the other. At age 36, my wife and I went to London to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary. When hopped in a cab to go on the tour of the Tower of London, the driver drove over Tower Bridge, right past both towers. I'm like, "Where's this guy going?" My wife, who had been to London several times before was kind enough to enlighten me.

Morgan

My hometown is called Nuneaton. Up until about eight years old I always thought is was 'The Neaton'. I only realised otherwise when I entered a colouring competition and had to submit my address, asking my parents how to spell 'The Neaton'.

Stuart

I was told as a child that you couldn't enter Scotland without a kilt on. Pertrified of having to wear a skirt I used to hide under my coat in the back of the car when we crossed the border...

Iscaboo

I used to think that each country was stacked on top of each other. That's why planes took off into the sky after all!
Because of this, I used to watch Golf and get worried as the ball went down the hole. I was keen for the golfer to get it right away before it'd fall through to another world.

Mike Bilsborough