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Leading up to my first visit to a seashore, I envisioned that the beach would be a narrow strip of sand, only about three feet wide. To the landward side of that narrow strip, I thought, soil and vegetation would turn abruptly to pretty much the same as they were at home, a few hundred miles inland. On the seaward edge of the beach, I supposed, there was an abrupt vertical drop into deep sea waters.

Greg

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

kelli

I used to think each country was it's own planet.

erin clements

when i was about 8, my brother (who was 10) told me that if there were no trees, buildings, or houses in sight from our house all the way to Washington DC, we would be able to see the Washington Monument in clear view, without a telescope. I believed this until i was 15..

Too bad it's not true..

When I was a kid, I used to think, to get on the George Washington Bridge, you had to drive up the support cables that span the top of the bridge instead of driving on the flat pavement.

Joanne

When I was about 7 years old I heard the news mention New Mexico. I thought for a long time that it was a "new" part of Mexico that had just been established.

Anon

For a while, I thought Vegas and Las Vegas were two different cities.

Jen

As a child, I had the idea that Japan was a country the shape of what I now know to be France, and it was between China and India.

Anon

I used to think that Los Angeles took up half the United States

Anon

Untill I was 7 or eight I had never seen a globe so I thought Alaska and Hawaii were right next to each other. One day I asked my teacher how come Alaska was so cold and hawaii was not. The next day she broght a globe in and showed me where alaska and hawaii really were.

Anon

i used to think that there were 51 states and that the fifty first was Chicago, and its capital was buffalo.


sad to say some one told me there was 50 and that chicaog was a city, just recently

clueless american

When my sister's father went to Seattle, my sister said "Is Attle nice?" She thought Attle was a person's name

zzo38

At the age of 5-6, when anybody left India for any foreign country, I used to believe that there is only one other country apart from India in the entire world.

Nafiz

I used to think that the third world was a different planet. I imagined what it would be like to travel between the earth and the third world. I could never figure out where the second world was.

the renus

I used to believe that when I took a plane and was going to another country, that I was actually going out to space and the country was on another planet.

Morgan

When I was little, I used to believe that Disneyland was in the clouds. Until I actually went to Disneyland, I figured out it wasn't in the sky, and I felt really stupid! haha :)

haley

I used to believe that heaven and Israel were the same place, because they were both important to the bible and whenever my Grandmother visited from Israel, she came from the sky in an airplane and when she left, she left in an airplane.

Anon

I used to believe that the United States were a planet, since I'm from another country.

Anon

When I was a little kid I thought downtown Denver was New York City, then I got a little older and thought, "well if thats denver this must be New York" but I was wrong again... it was Centennial.

Anon

i used to belive that when you were driving over a hill it was the end of the world

brianne