from wikipedia:
"While many people believe that lemmings commit mass suicide when they migrate, this is not the case.... the suicide myth was propagated by the Walt Disney documentary
White Wilderness in 1958 which includes footage of lemmings migrating and running head-long over a ledge. An investigation in 1983 showed that the Disney film makers faked the entire sequence using imported lemmings (bought from Inuit children), a snow covered turntable on which a few dozen lemmings were forced to run, and literally throwing lemmings into the sea..."
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