Episode
How Do They Do It?: Vanilla, Anchors
Overview
How do they grow enough vanilla to make the world's favourite ice cream flavour? How are anchors for huge ships built? How are 12 million lighters made every year?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2012-09-06
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Vanilla, Anchors is Episode 10 in Season 9 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2012-09-06. The runtime is 22 min.
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