I never understood "a stitch in time saves 9" (till fairly recently). I assumed it had something to do with sewing up the fabric of time in a kind of star-trek way.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I thought Dr. Stitch, our town’s doctor… was Stich from lilo and stitchAnon
- I used to believe that the Captain's Log in Star Trek, was really a log— Anna
- I used to believe that the visible rays of the sun were beaming people up to heaven. like in star trek.Anon
- I thought until fairly recently that bacon came from the skin of a pig and that's why it was so thin— Nate
- I used to think that on day light savings time you had to stay up till 2:00am to change the clocks! — Sandy
- I used to believe that England was shaped like a Sewing Machine Box, Germany was a Smiling Sun. Anon