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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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CARACAS another country
When I was child, my mother used to take my brother and me to the doctor in Caracas. I used to believe that Caracas was another country. I didn't know that Caracas was a city.
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When I was little I used to believe that if i wait until the end of the movies I would see my name in the credits.
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When I was little, I used to think that when I dug, I will arrive in China
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When we were kids, my mom and I convinced my cousin that the birds in the Tiki Room at Disneyland were actually real instead of mechanical.
When I was a child, my dad used to get in the car and go off on his own on some Sundays -- his only day off. I always wanted to go, and when I asked him where he was going, being from Arkansas, he would say, "Off a piece". Until I was in sixth grade I thought there was a town in the San Joaquin Valley called Ofapece.
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Up until the age of 6, I thought that Los angeles was the contient of north America and i thought California was the exact city I lived in.
When I was little I use to think that the United States was the entire world. I was shocked when I found out otherwise!
When I was small I used to think Africa was one whole country
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that therewere only 2 countries in the world: Canada and the US
When i was little i came up with weird things to explain weird things. Have you ever seen clouds on the skyline, like that "line" in between the sky and the ground, I used to think that they were mountains, and they would dissapear (when i couldnt see clouds there) and i constantly begged my parents to go mountain climbing on them, and i thought it was soo lucks we lived near disapearing mountains.
i used 2 belive that when u went 2 mexio u will go 2 a different planet.
When I was young I thought the world was flat
I used to believe that there was a whole separate continent called "West Africa". It was divided into twenty-some countries. Among continents, it ranked in area between Europe and Antarctica. And where was this "West Africa" continent located? It took up a good portion of what is actually the Indian Ocean, EAST of Africa. Go figure!
When I was a child I honestly thought Chicago was a state. I don't know how old I was when I learned that it was a city in Illinois.
my boyfriend's daughter when she was about 5 or 6, everytime they drove by the ABC store (Alcoholic Beverage Stores in the States) she would beg her dad to take her into the "toy" store. She refused to believe that they didn't sell toys until he took her in and showed her that all they had was bottles!!
When I was about 6 years old, I used to go visit my grandma in Pennsylvania and we had to go through the Squirrel Hill Tunnel. and they are 2 tunnels right next to each other and they go under a big mountian and they were really long.. well i always thought that when you went under them you would somehow end up on the other side of the mountian and go out the other way bak to where u came from. and u just "somehow" ended up where you were going. I believed that untill i waz about 12!! and then i finially relized that there were 2 sepret tunnels and you dont somehow turn around and go the other way! HAHA
I used to believe that there were only office buildings in Manhattan and only zoos and farms on Staten Island.
When I was a child I used to believe Cancún was the only place in Quintana Roo
I used to beleive that the world was flat until I got into the fifth grade and my teacher told us that that wasn't true. I felt so dumb!
I used to believe that Chernobil was in africa and when everyone talking about the children having deformities I thought they meant when starving children's stomachs get all bloated.