Some examples from my personal experience:

-When I was little, I believed that researchers were really fighting each other when I heard “researchers are fighting to find a cure for this disease”.

-I thought an autopilot actually worked like in the movie “Airplane”, that it was really an inflatable dummy.

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    1 year ago

    When i was a child, i thought that high voltage lines were for little people travelling in cable cars.

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    When I was really young I thought that skyscrapers were people who stood on tall buildings and literally scarped the sky with some sort of long tool.