When
reality turns out to be night and
day from a reasonable and logical guess of the
evidence.
The phrase refers the skull of a hippo, which to someone who had never seen the live animal, would
likely assumed it to look like Picture 1, and nowhere near the real animal (see link)
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SLASH bitj45.jpg
Surely it looks impossible that there could be life on
Mars. But there may be a hippo paradox!
You may think there's no reason to look further. But don't fall for the hippo paradox.
We all were sure the
job would be
easy, but it turned out a real hippo paradox.