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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 believe that Arkansas was pronounced "Ar-CAN-sas," not "AR-can-saw."
Ex: "Mommy, if this state is Kansas, why isn't this state Ar-kansas? It doesn't make sense."
"It just is sweetie."
"Maps are hard."
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I used to believe that Washington D.C. was in Washington and that the the United States was the entire world and there were no other countries.
I used to believe that everything in Japan was really dark and had a red tone. I'm not sure why, but I think maybe I saw a martial arts movie that had a dark setting or something.
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When I was little, I used to believe that Illinois (where I lived) was a country
When I was about five or six,I believed that Las Vegas was its own country. Somehow,when I was seven I thought that it was the capital of California. I was completley confused when I found out that Las Vegas was , in fact , in Nevada.
Up until I was about ten, I thought my local newspaper was distributed around the world. I thought it was just a coincidence that my town was always mentioned. I was in total shock when I saw a different newspaper at my grandma's house. What a life-changing moment.
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I used to think that if I dug a deep-enough hole in my dad's garden (located in Virginia) and jumped through, I could fall through the sky into North Carolina.
My older brother told me that Mt. Rushmore wasn't carved by anyone -- the rocks just "grew up" in that shape. "how could anyone have made it?" I said maybe Superman carved it, because he could fly and carve at the same time. My mother almost fell off the couch, laughing.
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When I was smaller I used to believe that there was always someone doing exactly what I was doing at the moment because the world is so big!
I used to think the word "european" had something to do with pee, and that kids weren't supposed to say it.
I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and believed that the Golden Gate Bridge led one out of California and the United States: after all, the word "gate" always meant that it led to something else!
My cousin and I both thought Narnia was a real place when I was about eleven and she was about ten. I looked for it in my closet, and she thought a painting on my parents' bedroom wall actually came from Narnia.
I used to believe that Ireland was called that because it really is an island!
i used to think France was in the united states
I used to believe that Africa was the biggest country and Luxembourg was the smallest.
My mom was 40 and we were going to Chicago... she told me to "book a hotel room by the ocean." She also confessed that she thought Hawaii was up by New York. Nevermind, because until I was 18 I thought the Statue of Liberty was in Washington state.
in learning about the layout of my city (new orleans) i became aware that there was a west bank. i never liked being there because it didn't look as nice as other parts of town.
and besides, whenever the news was on there was talk about more bombs going off there.
I used to believe that China was attached to the United States somewhere up near Washington state.
i used to believe that the name 'Gibraltar' was actually spelt 'Gilbratar' for years and until quite recently I was convinced that there was 2 separate place 'jibrolter' and 'gilbratar' I had seen one written down, misread it and made no connection to the actual word. Even now if i see it written down i have to read it twice to make sure.
because of the song "we, the three kings of orient are", a coworker thought "orientar" was a place until recently.