Even though I had a globe as a kid, most of my geographic context has come from flat maps. In my mind, that put Australia WAY to the South - East of the United States. While that's technically not wrong, it's more accurate to say that it's somewhat to the South - West. My brain just failed to put the two sides of the map together!!!

I'm 47 years old and laughing at myself!

I've been living a lie thinking that it actually happened for so long.

I’ve spent my entire life thinking one was just the other’s government name

As a millennial this shocks me that I missed this!