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The one day my sister said she was going to Washington DC for a field trip at school, and I wondered how she was there for a day, because I used to think Washington DC was the state of Washington (I live in Pennsylvania). I was so confused by it, and I believed that from the time I was 8.

Lauren

i can remember my parents saying they were thinking of moving house and asking me where i wanted to live. i said i didnt mind as long as it wasn't earnest. baffled by this answer they asked me why. so i told them that lots of people get murdered there and i would be too scared to sleep. they still didn't understand so i explained how on the news murder enquiries always begin in earnest!

PaganJay

I used to believe that the forth bridge , which runs across the river forth in Scotland, was named because the other three had fallen down !

ross

i remember standing in the playground when i was about 6 and i could smell daffodil and for about 2 years i thought the world was a giant daffodil.bit random but i was only 6 lol!

becki

I went to Italy with my parents for the first time when I was three years old. It took so long to fly there - nine hours - that I was convinced it was on another planet.

lil_amsterdam

There is a town in British Columbia called 100 Mile House. When I was a kid my father told me that it wasn't a town, it was actually a house that was one hundred miles long. I envisioned this gigantic log house building until I was about eleven years old.

lil_amsterdam

I used to think Hungary and Turkey were the same country... I have no idea where that came from...

Skylla

OK, it needs some explain for the beginning. In polish, telephone exchange is called "centrala". I'm from Poland and in my early childhood several times I watched cartoons with polish dubbing, where the character called phone and asked "centrala?" Each time I thought that was asking for the name of the town the receiver was in, because "centrala" sounded for me just as the name of the town, like i.e "Warszawa" (Warsaw). Few years later I've learnt what does "centrala" really means, but before that, I seriously believed there's somewhere town called Centrala and I had several funny situations with this, i.e. I was sitting on the toy motorcycle, playing that I'm riding it, and when some aunt asked me jokely where I'm going, i replied "to the Centrala". Boy, you should to see their looks when they heard that =)

Drunked dolphin

When I was little, I used to believe that the Leaning Tower of Piza was actually the Leaning Tower of Pizzas. I would always ask my mom how it stayed there and why nobody just ate it!

Chad

i play blueberry hill with my friends and when i was about 4 i went looking for blueberry hill.unfortunatly i aws looking in my back yard.=)

weird kid

When I was very little I lived in a Place Called Mill Woods but we moved to where I live now And I used to think (when I was about 4-8 that Mill Woods was an actual wood and I used to live in a tree!

Kayl

Until today I believe that the white house was the U.S. capitol. last summer i was in D.C. and got to go into the Capital Building....i remeber telling my friends i visited the white house. i'm a loser

Anon

My grandmother used to live in a small town in northern California named McCloud. Because of my Dad's work schedule, the only time we could make the trip to visit her was in the wintertime. The town is up in the mountains, and we'd drive past lots of snow and fog to get there. I was sure we were actually driving up into the clouds to visit her. There was always about 8 feet of snow on the ground, which fit with my notion that clouds were really cold. And after all, the town was even named McCloud!

ZCam

I used to believe that the state of nebraska was just and urban myth. It had never occured to me at all why anyone would want to live there. I thought it was a HUGE government conspiracy, and I was the only one who knew the truth. I used to secretly black it out with my pen whenever I saw the darn thing on a map. and when people would ask me what the heck I was doing I would say something like - You dont know what your saying! You like to eat shoe-laces! Thats why you dont have any!- and then when they looked down at their feet I would run away.

i still blot it out

I thought Oklahoma was a place in Japan (due to it weird name :P), and Japan gave it to USA later.

Luiz Alfonso

When I was young, shredded wheat was made in Niagara Falls and the package had a picture of shredded wheat going over Niagara Falls. When I saw Niagara Falls for the first time at eight years old,I wondered where the shredded wheat was!

Norma

I used to always forget the word 'vagina' and thought it was 'china' instead. I always wondered why they named a country after my 'special place'. also the country 'chad' confused me, as i knew a kid named chad. oh, and who wasn't confused by 'chile'?

k8

I used to think that if i looked through small cracks in the ground, I could see my aunt Martha in Australia hanging up the her bra on the washing line. Odd, but true.

Aidan