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ᗪIᐯEᖇGEᑎTᕼᗩᖇᗰOᑎIᑕᔕ@sopuli.xyz to Today I learned@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

TIL that the film which helped give rise to the popular misconception, that Lemmings commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs and into the ocean, was a 1958 nature "documentary" by Walt Disney.

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TIL that the film which helped give rise to the popular misconception, that Lemmings commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs and into the ocean, was a 1958 nature "documentary" by Walt Disney.

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ᗪIᐯEᖇGEᑎTᕼᗩᖇᗰOᑎIᑕᔕ@sopuli.xyz to Today I learned@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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White Wilderness (film) - Wikipedia
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That the jumping was staged, that I knew already.

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    When I was in school I remember being told they threw the lemmings off manually, which is some breathtakingly horrible animal cruelty.

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