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I used to believe that America was a state near the one I live in.

Anon

When I was younger my family moved several states away. In class, there was a going away party for me and another girl who also happened to be moving. I thought that at least her and I could be friends after we moved, Like the world was point A and point B, and we were moving to point B.

Anon

All colleges had campuses in the state of Maine not just a main campus.

Michael

I thought that all US state borders were rivers because my hometown was near a river that served as the border between my state and another. I never considered that perfectly straight rivers don't exist in nature.

Vania

I used to believe Las Vegas is the capital city of Alaska since they sound alike. To make things worse, my officemate started to think the same way right after I told him my misconception.

Na

I used to believe that the White House was in Washington state, and always imagined the president residing at the top of the country like he was looking out over everyone.

Brit

For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!

Helllowerer

When I was 10, my family went to the grand canyon & the adults were talking about how it takes 2 hours to hike down and it can take 4 to 6 hours to go back up. However I misheard them. I thought they said 46 hours, not 4 to 6 hours. I was thinking "Why would anyone want to spend almost two days hiking up a canyon?" A few days later I was thinking about it and I realized my mistake.

Anon

I thought Canada never experienced daytime after I saw a picture of a mountain in Canada at night. I also thought it was nothing but ice and glaciers, like Antarctica, because of this.

Galadriel Moon Silk

I thought the safari was a place you went, not a type of trip. I was trying to explain this to my sister telling her these characters were from the safari, she quickly set me straight. I was 15

Anon

I used to believe that Florida was up in the clouds and that's why we had to take a plane to get there.

Anon

when I was 7, I used to believe different countries have different down floor & people might walk on wall or side surface of home... meanwhile gravity would pull things from anywhere to any direction depends upon geographical situation of country!

Riyaz Arora

When I was about 5, my father told me that while it was night time in Spain (where we're from), it was daytime in Japan, and vice versa. I thought that was impossible!

Nina

I thought that there were mountains in swindon, until I was about 14 when I was told that it was acutally called 'Snowdonia'

Rory Bob Clewlow

Once, in the car on the way on a holiday to Devon, I asked if he would be there...I was slightly confused, and thought that God would be there...as he "art in Devon"

Verity

i used to think the whole world was new zealand

Matt

Because of a commercial I seen on tv, I thought the whole world was the size of the of the U.S.

Paulette

i used to believe that hawaii was located right south of florida. hey, they both have great weather!

ashley

In early 1990, our school was one of the first from the West to visit the former GDR after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Having grown up to fear the horrors of communism, we fully believed that everyone in the GDR must be starving and miserable, and when our minibus approached Halle, we were all terrified because we thought we'd be staying in these tiny little sheds, crammed up close together, with miniscule plots of land in front of them, where they were growing cabbages because there was nothing else to eat. It was only when we reached the city centre that we discovered that these were people's gardening allotments and that everyone lived in normal flats with electricity, hot water, toilets and shop-bought food, and had done for the past few decades.

Jane

I used to think that the St. Paul's Cathedral was the Capitol building in London, England just like the capitol in Washinton D.C.

Anon