My Mom told me that the reason why you go to bed later than normal and have dinner later than normal (when we were in Nova Scotia for a vacation we had dinner at 8:30pm) was because the closer you got to Greenwich England the faster time goes by.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.Anon
- Mom couldn't understand why at dinner time I wanted Chicken Pox.— Kristin
- We were told at school by the evil dinner ladies that apple pips contained arsenic.....Anon
- My mom was always talking about "making
ends meat" but I don't ever remember having it served at dinner!— John Stees - When i was younger up untill i was like 8 or 9 i thought that famous people didnt poop only normal people!!!— kaitlin
- I used to believe that toy poodles were actually normal poodles shrinked by a shrinking ray — nightmare