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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. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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That the jumping was staged, that I knew already.

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[–] daedramachine 2 points 1 year ago

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