When I was little, my grandmother told me that each time you ate a vegetable, you would live one minute longer. So, I believe that if you ate 60 vegetables, you would live an hour longer and so on.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that santa came to your house at a different time depending on where you live.
— santa 1:00 am - My sister told me that if you had sweetcorn in your poo, you had six months to live! I cried for weeks — Billy
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- I used to believe you could live down the back of the sofa...— Big Pete
- I used to believe that America was a state near the one I live in.Anon
- I used to believe that if I got a pet penguin it could live in the freezer.— Dippingmytoes