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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

I used to believe that if u dig a hole in the dirt that you would come out in China

Angela

Because we used to get TV programmes and Text books from the US, my friend thought that by driving north of the North Island of NZ you would end up in America.

Anon

When my sister was 4 she got into an argument with my Dad that Marineland was at Ontario Place and not at Niagara Falls. She explained this by singing the Marineland commercial song, "at Niagara falls ONTARIO, it's always a fun PLACE to go"

Tricksy

I used to not know the difference between "city" and "building." So when Mom and Dad said the city we lived in was San Jose, I pictured us all living in this giant skyscraper (really big, like city blocks wide and totally hollow)... I assumed that that was where we would go if there was some sort of big emergency... like a natural disaster or something. I had scary dreams about all of us having to leave our house and go live in San Jose (the giant skyscraper)

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