/oss/taxonomy/term/2703/all en /oss/article/did-you-know-history/lies-leaping-lemmings <p>You’ve likely heard phrases like ‘don’t be a lemming’, or your run of the mill internet troll scream-typing about how we’re all following our governments ‘like lemmings, over the cliff to our doom!’ What you might not know though is that the idea of the suicidal lemmings is a <a href="http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp">completely fabricated one</a>. <a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/50957/do-lemmings-really-run-cliffs-their-death">Lemmings do not jump to their doom off of cliffs.</a></p> Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:26:27 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 2587 at /oss