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Swimming in Syrup

Season 7 • Episode 5

On this extra-sticky episode of MythBusters, we put a classic physics 'thought-problem' to the test, and then take on two 'magic bullet' myths - one from television, and the other from an American frontier legend.

43 min|TV-PG|Premiered 10/09/2008

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