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When I was 4 or 5, I was told that the man who had built our house had moved to Florida when he was finished. I imagined a state covered in tile as far as the eye could see, with lots of houses sitting there on that giant FLOOR, built by the guy who built our house and was maybe just tired of hills and grass and stuff.

Randy W.

When I was around 6 or 7 years old, I used to believe that if I dug straight down through the earth in my sandbox that I would reach China. Well I eventually learned that, that is not true :)

Michele

I live in oregon and just to the north is a city called camas, which has a paper factory that is very stinky. when visiting my grandma we would have to pass it, and my parents would say "smells like the camas plant"....so i was under the impression that camas was an actual stinky plant that the city was named after. It wasn't till i was an adult that i found out - there is no stinky camas plant other than the factory

A

For some reason I used to think the Christmas of 1977 was going to be the last Christmas ever, for the whole world. There would be no more Christmases forever. WTF, I was 6 then! :-D

Anon

We used to go to my grandma's, on the interstate. We never went further and I believed that all the cars were falling off the side of the world.

blake

This is quite sad. A friend of mine, in high school, thought that Alaska was an island surrounded by a box in the Pacific Ocean.

Anon

For whatever reason I thought that if you stepped right on the equater you would get sucked to the center of the earth.

Anon

(I live in the united States)

I used to believe that China was over the mountains. So When I was in Kindergarden our bus driver got mad at us for being loud on the bus and said, "you better be quiet, or I will turn this bus around and take you all over the moutain and make you go back to school!" I was scared because I didn't to go to school in China. I wanted to go to school in the united states. I was also scared of chiniese people at the time.

Jeremy

I used to think that the black market was a real place.

Patrick

I used to belief that the countries in the world were actually small planets. All together they would make up the Earth. So, if I would visiting another country, I would have to fly through a tube to get into the other country.

You can imagine the surprise when we visited Germany (I'm Dutch) and it was just at the other end of the street.

What a ripoff!

Marco

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

Jen

Until I was about 10 I beieved that people could actually dig to China, and I told my friend that if we dug in the sandbox far enough, we could get to China. Then he told me that if we dug to China,the chinese dug to here. But if we dug too far and took a wrong
turn underground, we would get to hell!
So everyday, if I saw an Asian man outside, i would compliment him about his digging skills, but if I saw a construction worker digging, or even someone in the sandbox, I would scream at the top of my lungs and cry and tell them to stop.I was to horrified to dig for the next 6 years!Then i found out that you cant dig to hell. you just burn in flaming hot magma burning your skin in a terrible abyss of pain and fire while screaming in terror while burning into an oblivion!!!What a relief...

Josh Martinez

I used to think that the state of Texas was New York and that the Statue of Liberty was right smack in the middle of the state.

G

When I was little, I thought America was a magical land inhabited by famous people, cowbys, + cartoon characters.
I pictured it to be somewhere near Bristol.

Nin

When I was four years old I found out my family was moving from Iowa to Florida. I thought that our house was going to be knocked down and rebuilt in the middle of Disneyworld.

Spoonboy

when i was younger I thought that canada was only toronto, mississauga, burlington and niagara falls.

Anon

I used to believe that The Mall Of America was in Canada.

Adam