(Age 4ish, after learning the Earth was round) I used to believe that Illinois was at the top of the Earth, and that if you went too far away without proper equipment, you'd roll off the planet. Also meant people on the other side of the planet had to climb around with monkey-bar side walks. Later this turned into they built their buildings to accommodate for the "downward" pull the of gravity. Their ceilings were just respectively our grounds, and that is why pictures of people from China seemed upright. Wasn't too long before I figured it didn't work like that... and I was so hoping to to one day walk on the ceilings in China.
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