I feel like even if that was untrue in the past, it’s definitely not untrue today
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Rudee@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
I remember reading somewhere that the indigenous people of a SE Asian country believed that orangutans could speak, but chose not to because they would be forced to work if humans found out
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 days ago
it’s a good myth
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
OooOok
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
This is different but sort of the same energy.
I asked my dad one time “Wouldn’t it be awesome if we didn’t need to sleep?”
And he go wide eyed with a horrified expression on his face and said “Hell no, can you imagine how much they’d make you work??”