We all know about lemmings, right? These tiny Arctic rodents occasionally commit mass suicide by hurling themselves off cliffs en masse. Why, adorable fuzzy creatures? Why?
The answer is: They don’t. Lemming suicide is a myth, a misconception, a lie.
We hold this false belief because a 1958 Disney documentary called White Wilderness staged fake lemming suicide scenes for the camera. (Disney filmmakers shipped lemmings to Canada and chased them off a cliff.) Here’s the scene that created the lemming suicide myth.
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Source: COMPUTER WORLD