Two young men from the Netherlands submitted a video to a Discovery Channel competition showing them failing to pull apart two interleaved phone books using two cars with their tires burning — and Adam and Jamie watched it, immediately needed to know why, and started working their way through every possible pulling method available to them, beginning with a human tug of war, finding it nowhere near enough, moving to two tire-burning rental cars chained to the books, finding that wasn't enough either, and then going to find something with considerably more pulling power, because the friction generated by thousands of interlocked pages turned out to be one of the most counterintuitive and deeply satisfying physical phenomena MythBusters ever stumbled into.

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Using science as their weapon and curiosity as their fuel, Hollywood special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman spent 14 seasons and 296 episodes testing the world's most popular myths, urban legends, and movie moments. From the Diet Coke & Mentos explosion to surviving an underwater car escape — if it can be tested, they'll test it.

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