Lemmings Don't Leap: A podcast about things you likely know but are probably wrong about

In our second Five False Facts episode, we explore five commonly held beliefs about animals that are wildly wrong. From the age of dogs to the short-term memory affliction of goldfish... Um, we forget where we were going from here. 

The Vikings episode explores far and wide the history of Vikings, also known as Normans and The Rus, today the namesakes for Normany, France and Russia. Most importantly, we'll point out a key falsehood about their helmets. 

This is the first Five False Facts episode of Lemmings Don’t Leap. Each False Facts episode takes a quick look at five different but related facts. That’s facts with air quotes around it. For this episode, we’re going to look at historically famous misquotes, ranging from Marie Antoinette to Neil Armstrong, with a little Humphrey Bogart in the mix. 

In the Christopher Columbus episode of Lemmings Don’t Leap we debunk a few myths about the Italian explorer, most notably that his trip to the New World in 1492 didn’t finally prove that the Earth was round. Find out more by listening to this episode and exploring the Show Notes at the end of the Transcript. 

In this premiere episode of the podcast, we'll explore how the population boom-and-bust cycle of the Norway lemming led to a widely held belief that the animals commit mass suicide rather than starve. It's also a wide-ranging motif in pop culture, largely in the form of saying that if someone blindly follows the herd without considering any consequences, they're a "lemming." Find out more by listening to this episode and exploring the Show Notes at the end of the Transcript.