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Re:Why birds do not fall while sleeping by TOGoS on Thursday October 17, 2024 @12:15AM (#41866372)
Okay but that's a pretty long day, isn't it? I'm not sure that's a proper 'riddle', per se.
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Re:Why birds do not fall while sleeping by defrost on Thursday October 17, 2024 @12:54AM (#41866525)
Like it or not it's been a definitive example of a classic riddle since before it appeared in Oedipus Rex, an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_Rex

( spoiler: he loved his mother )

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