lemmings

[baby-kelly97]

Why do lemmings jump off clifts?

[Rabelais]

To escape from disney film makers
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.as p

[ganesh]

they don't

[bensmum]

Beat me to it ganesh - I was about to say the same!

[andy-hughes]

And another urban myth is destroyed.

An even better myth is that -

The average adult swallows six spiders in their sleep during their lifetime.

This is totally made up specifically for the internet - someone decided to post this 'fact' and see how long it took to make its way around the world - which wasn't long.

Next week - Bob Holness comes clean about that sax break on 'Baker Street'.