The reason some think that eating carrots improves eyesight is because no one has seen a rabbit wearing glasses. 
DST was introduced in many countries (Germany was the first) during World War I. Mainly to conserve coal for the war effort by reducing the need for artificial lighting in the evening.
It doesn’t really affect farmers because they will use whatever daylight that’s available, regardless of what the clock says.
This is the first I’ve heard of that one. And given that, for most cooks and the equipment they actually have, and the way most spaghetti is sold, you can’t cook it without first breaking it, it’s hard to see how the myth would even take hold.
Humans only have five senses. Six, if you can see dead people.
I’ve heard the complaint that you shouldn’t break the spaghetti but I didn’t even know it was a big question until a few years ago. Before that, I never broke spaghetti because I just never even thought about it. What I did was take the spaghetti and dip half of it in the pot and push down slightly on one end, and the soaked half of the spaghetti will eventually loosen up and allow the entire strand to go into the pot.
I didn’t like this myself because it felt to me that each half would be getting a different amount of cooking time. So I independently discovered that I could break the spaghetti in half, which is faster and felt more consistent.
And people still believe in the “tongue map.”
Bunny Rabbit on Captain Kangaroo did.
And Bugs Bunny when he went undercover to spy on Cecil Turtle.
The biggest reason not to break spaghetti, as far as I can discern, is that it upsets Italians. I don’t know why it upsets them, but there are plenty of videos on social media of people rage-bairing the Italians in their lives by breaking spaghetti.
Kind of like how Americans heating water for tea in the microwave upsets Europeans. Here’s a Little American Secret for you all: We don’t do that. It’s a prank we play on social media to confuse and upset Europeans. Anyone here who needs hot water will use a kettle (yes, we have kettles in America) or boil some in a pot or whatever.
I must be missing something- how is the fact that I have an extra hour of daylight after work supposed to affect my shopping? I’m not going to buy more groceries or clothes because it gets dark at 9 pm instead of 8 pm. Maybe the fact that it stays light for that extra hour means I play golf during the week more often and I’m going to get take out because I get home too late to cook or in some areas , it might have meant that stores had an extra hour of passing foot traffic because people were returning home an hour later from outdoor activities but that doesn’t seem like it would make a big difference to the Walmart of its day - although it might make a big difference to a 7-11 or an ice cream shop.
You get off work an hour earlier which presumes you have more time for shopping. Back in the day, even though the clock governed your work time, the sun still governed your leisure time.
ETA: It also occurs to me that men were probably most responsible for spending disposable income in those days. Women could shop for household necessities during the work day, but men (who bought luxury items like cigars, pocket watches, gifts for the wife) only had that brief time between work and the bar…uh, dinner time.
If you’re in the break room at work, how do you make tea? Most American break rooms don’t have an electric kettle. The coffee machine might be able to dispense hot water, but it’s likely not hot enough, dispensed in the wrong amounts, and unreliable anyway (at least, that’s an accurate description at my workplace). But it’s easy to fill up my mug, zap it for a couple of minutes, and then drop in a teabag.
Most Americans don’t drink tea, but those of us who do often bring in their own electric kettles for tea.
I don’t think it changes the taste any - but people who cook long pastas fairly frequently do have a big enough pot not to break the spaghetti/lasagne , whatever.
At my workplace, there is a jar in the kitchen area to collect soda can tabs for special recycling.
I’m not kidding. It was placed there months ago, and it’s almost full. For now, it’s just sitting there.
Speaking of rabbits and carrots, the idea that carrots are a staple food of rabbits is itself a myth. Rabbits will eat carrots, but it’s not good for their diet-- too much sugar content.
The reason behind the ‘rabbits eating carrots’ myth is an interesting bit of entertainment history: it originates from the fact that Bugs Bunny liked to eat carrots. The reason why he was originally depicted eating a carrot was because it was a parody of Clark Gable’s character eating a carrot while talking to Claudette Colbert’s character in the movie ‘It Happened One Night’. It was meant to show a certain insouciance on the part of Gable’s character, establishing a long-running TV / movie trope where a character eats an apple or something similar while having a conversation. The makers of Looney Toons thought that would be perfect for Bug’s character too.
But you don’t actually have more time between work and whatever. You still work from 9-5 or whatever, dinner’s still at 6 and so on. There aren’t more hours - it’s just that more of the after work ones have daylight. Why would people have been reluctant to shop after sundown in May when they did it in December?
Some of those stories are urban legends but there really are organizations that collect the tabs. The tabs aren’t worth any more per pound than the whole can would be - but people who want the nickel or dime per can deposit back are willing to donate the tabs.
Maybe they eat dinner at sunset. I don’t think United Cigar was just lobbying for shits and giggles.
Plus if it doesn’t have its own dedicated water tap, the water can taste of coffee. I nuke my tea because I don’t like it extremely hot and strong. I like the convenience of pre-made hot tea, but then I put milk in it to soften the tannins because the pre-brew is slightly too strong for me.