{"product_id":"hippo-eats-dwarf","title":"Hippo Eats Dwarf","description":"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 bizarre, almost certainly fake and 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 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?\nOr are they just hippo-eats-dwarf urban myths?","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":1219743416331,"sku":"9780330512916N","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/getImage_8366c04a-af9f-4c6b-9f8d-30c3cbe98429.jpg?v=1510788030","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/hippo-eats-dwarf","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}