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TOGoS on Oct 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why birds do not fall while sleeping

Okay but that's a pretty long day, isn't it? I'm not sure that's a proper 'riddle', per se.

defrost on Oct 17, 2024 | [–]

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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