Episode
How Do They Do It?: Guacamole, Swamp Buggy
Overview
How do volcanoes help produce the world's best guacamole? How do they build trucks that can cross swamps? How do they make the world-famous Fiskars scissors?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 2012-08-09
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Guacamole, Swamp Buggy is Episode 7 in Season 9 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2012-08-09. The runtime is 22 min.
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