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When I was young I thaugth that the phillipines was about where Germany is.

Sigrid

When I Was About 5 My Mum Got Me A Map Of The World For My Room. And Up Until I Started High School I Thourght That Ireland Was France & Germany !!

Crystal-Anne

I lived in New Hampshire and I knew that, but I thought New Hampshire was where Idaho is. I got their shapes mixed up. It seemed to me that there was a bridge we'd always drive towards but always pull off the highway before we went under it. I figured California was just on the other side of the bridge.

Blake

I uesd to think that every people over the world lived in my country.

Anon

When I was 3 or 4 my family went on vacation to Mt. Rushmore and when we got there we went to the gift shop and watched a video of the rock being blown up and falling down the mountain when they carved it. After that I was terrified because I thought the rock did that on its own and if we got close we would be crushed. I refused to get any closer than the parking lot.

Emma

Until a few years ago, I thought Detroit was in Chicago. I knew that Detroit is a city, and that Chicago is not a state, but somehow these two facts did not combine in my cognition and thus the Lions played in Detroit, CHI (yes, I realize state abbreviation conventions require only two letters). To this day I still think of Detroit as being located in the midwest, not in the north, making work at a global travel company very confusing...

Oh and i am now 22...

Youngnotold

I thought Las Vegas was in Texas. Seemed like a good place for it.

Anon

There are these small brown cone-shaped buildings that I can see whenever driving /riding down the highway, and I always thought there were dinosaurs in there. I had a good reason though. When I was maybe 2 or 3, I remember going to a dinosaur exhibit, and I remember the building being the same shape (brown cone).

EJ

I used to believe that all of Russia was part of Asia. I believed this until I was in the 7th grade. Oddly enough, when I asked a librarian, she had no idea.

Anon

i used to believe that the country Thailand was actually 'tyre-land', a magical place with tyres and elephants to play with.

Vet

My older brother once told me that there were 52 states because of Puerto Rico and Alaska. Needless to say, I failed a lot of quizzes about the USA. And to this day I wonder what the other extra state must have been.

Jocelyn

When I was young i used to think that the world was flat

Ammiel

I thought photoshop ment a shop that would edit your photos.

Anon

I used to think Cancun was Camp Coon

not a raccoon

When I was a child I used to believe that every country was a planet.

laura k

When I was younger I used to believe the earth was flat because I thought that if it was round and with volume we were going to fall.

Laia

I have absolutely no idea why but when I was a young child I thought Hong Kong was another name for London.

Anon

Iam from Norway,I used to believe that I could dig a tunnel from Norway to Chaina.And that I could "travel" thru the tunnel all the way to Chaina, but not "travel" back in the same tunnel.And maybe it would take years to dig a new one so I could go home.Scary!!!

Janne-Karin

I used to believe that, because my mum told me that the world was eternal (as in circle, didn't understand that though), that the world really was eternal and that i could never visit every country in the world. So when I asked my mum if I could visit every country in the world, I was very surprised when she said yes!

KM

I used to believe that New Zealand was a place, which was made by the butcher of my neighborhood, in order to put his lambs there !

Giorgos