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when i was very small i believed that the world was divided into four equal quarters: england, france, spain, and america.

Eve

For about 16 years of my life I thought Alaska was an island near Canada. In the textbooks they always showed it separate from everything!

Maureen

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

when i was in 2nd grade, i could not figure out why the poeple in the southern hemisphere didn't fall off the planet.

minh

You know maps of the world that are on classroom walls, well in those maps the world looks flat. One day i asked my mom what was on the other side of the world.

Lola

when i was very young, when me and my family went to Bangladesh by plane from UK, I used to believe that we were flying to the moon and bangladesh was on the moon.

Anon

I believed this for a long time (longer than I'd care to admit!): I knew that midgets were referred to as "little people" and for years I thought that Reno was a big city of little people because it is known as "the biggest little city on earth".

Tif

That the British Isles is a seperate country near Africa. I think the fact that I live in England makes it worse!

x-nicola-x

My father came from a place called "The Heath" in County Laois, Ireland. He used to always tell us we were "Heath Men" which meant we were strong and proud. I always thought he was saying we were "Hate Men" and I would always get angry and smack things when he told us. Curiously, it took him a long time for him to realize what I was hearing.

Brendude

In the early 80's, I remembered there was a huge campaign to the save the world from hunger such as the song "We are the world," and I also remember all the talk about space exploration. So when they had can food drives at my elementary school, I assumed that they were sending the food by rocket to Ethopia which was located on the Moon.

Anon

I used to think that my home town of Eureka was MY Rika since I thought everyone said YOUR Rika.

I still wonder who Rika is

I used to believe that no one lived in Anarctica not because it was cold but because it was at the bottem of the world, so you would fall off the earth into outer space if you went there.

Sejelly

I used to believe that Kansas (pronounced "kan-sas"), Arkansas (pronounced "ar-kan-sas") and Arkansas (pronounced "ar-kan-saw") were three different states in the U.S.

Steven

When I was a kid I used to think that people who lived south of the equator had their own globes and maps of the world upside down to our with "south" pointing "up" and "north" pointing "down". No one ever told me that, I just assumed that was just the way it had to be..

Batchain (George

One of those that many beived, as well as me: I thought there was a red and white, barber shop like pole at the norh and sounth pole.

Anon

When I was about 4 or so, I believed that when the space shuttle took off, it would go very high in the sky like you see on tv, but then just go towards a big house like a plane, and this house was that big Kennedy Space Center building (the rectangular one) i believed the "earth" was some kind of magical deity inside this building and the only way to go through the walls was by space shuttle. i never realized we lived there.

Mark

i thought that at the end of every country you could sit at the edge and dangle your feet off the edge into the water

Anon

Growing up in Australia we have a lot of people from New Zealand here. Because it is such a small country, i used to belive that Australians where the only people that knew about New Zealand!

I think this continued well into my teens untill i realised lord of the rings was filmed there!

ShannonOfDoom

I used to believe that we lived inside the earth!

Natalie Howley

I used to believe that we were on top of the earth because we walked upright and the ground was under us. So I also equally believed that people on the “bottom” of the earth like Australia walked on space and the ground was on top of them like the sky was for us.

Anon