When I was a kid I realised that in Australia it must be the middle of the night when England was sitting down to eat lunch. This was immediately dismissed as insane, because they would have to get up at midnight to catch any sort of daylight.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe my barbies came alive at night, so I would always try to catch them in the act.Anon
- I thought the England was EDGE-land but england was ENG-landAnon
- WHen I was a kid i used to believe you could dig to Australia— Chie
- i used to think that Australia was the whole world.— Trish
- i used to think that bethleham was in australia, like just out in the desert somewhere— joanna
- I was sure that Adelaide (where I lived) was the capital of Australia because they both started with
"A"— fiona