Episode
How Do They Do It?: Peppermint Oil, Tennis Rackets, Desalination
Overview
How does one family in America make three quarters of the world's peppermint oil? Also, how do they make state-of-the-art, performance-enhancing tennis rackets?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 16
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2019-06-13
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Peppermint Oil, Tennis Rackets, Desalination is Episode 1 in Season 16 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2019-06-13. The runtime is 22 min.
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