Hippo Eats Dwarf Paperback / softback
by Alex Boese
Paperback / softback
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The following news story apparently first appeared in the Las Vegas Sun: 'A circus dwarf, nicknamed Od, died recently when he bounced sideways from a trampoline and was swallowed by a yawning hippopotamus waiting to appear in the next act.
More than 1,000 spectators continued to applaud wildly until they realized the tragic mistake.' And yet, of course, Od never existed; which doesn't stop the story appearing every few years as a news item, set in fictional circuses from Manchester to Thailand and Sydney.
The hippo-eats-dwarf story is a) bizarre, b) almost certainly fake and c) masquerading as real, which describes a disturbing amount of what we hear and read about in magazines and on the web. Scientific investigator Alex Boese, who has for ten years run the web's biggest myth-busting website www.museumofhoaxes.com, has collected together a wonderfully entertaining anthology of the best urban myths of recent years, from bonsai kittens reared in jars to keep them small to male lactation, and confirms or de-bunks them once and for all.
So did Burger King really release a left-handed Whopper, with all of the condiments rotated through 180 degrees?
Is dehydrated water available to buy online? Or are they just hippo-eats-dwarf urban myths?
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Pan Macmillan
- Publication Date:25/02/2016
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- ISBN:9781509823192
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Pan Macmillan
- Publication Date:25/02/2016
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- ISBN:9781509823192