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The little-known truth behind a Christmas tale: Scientifically, it's proven that Santa's magical flying sleigh must have been pulled by a crew of female reindeer - [video, 3 min] (www.bbc.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by tardigrada to c/humanities

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But we assumed that they were male, to the point that we named one Rudolph.

Where does this myth come from, is it harmless, and what does it say about us?

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[–] jarfil 3 points 4 weeks ago

In Red One they've made the reindeers female. That one caught me by surprise, had to look it up.

[–] Malgas 2 points 4 weeks ago

I want to know just how many magical reindeer have been examined by scientists :P

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago

The female reindeer are for milk 😎