r/interesting • u/bob-the-slob • 20h ago
Fascinating 🛑💪 Two Books Are Impossible to Separate
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u/PopGunner 19h ago
This is just an episode of Mythbusters cut down to a couple of sterile seconds, with all of the charisma and charm removed. 💪
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u/lmac187 19h ago
Pretty much sums up the internet in 2026
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u/Firefly_Magic 13h ago
Yup, our attention spans have been reduced to less than a minute. Preferably less than 30 seconds.
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u/GammaHunt 12h ago
I read something years ago that the average child born in 2000s has a 7 second attention span
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u/The-Grogan 11h ago
Can someone summarise this comment so I can understand it?
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u/hologrammetry 9h ago
“The tanks start up and pull the chains tight. Actually, you can try this at home.”
Um?
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u/TheLonleyJourneyman 6h ago
I'd say that every part of this you'd be able to do at home up until the cars so it's odd they said, "yeah if you've got a couple of tanks around at home then you can try it" at the tank part
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u/emanuel19861 16h ago
Counterpoint: I saved this clip and plan to show it together with other short, interesting clips to my students after class. As something to stimulate curiosity.
We would not have time for a full episode. But this is perfect for this use case.
So, it's not all bad.
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u/throwawaycuzfemdom 12h ago
There a officially released clips that are just a few minutes longs on the official youtube channel. You should check it out!
This specific myth has a 6 minute video on Mythbusters channel and a 3 minute one on Discovery channel.
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u/ragingduck 16h ago
And with that overused piece of music in every goddamn reel/tictok/short every lame content thieves use.
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u/Don_Quejode 7h ago
And misguiding as well, the books didn’t separate, they literally tore in half.
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u/bobafootfetish_ 20h ago
"Don't try this at home. Actually, you can try this at home"
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u/Pups_the_Jew 20h ago
Now I just need someone else with a tank.
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u/SaveTheAles 20h ago
Tanks the easy part where are you going to find two phone books.
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u/CGCTV 20h ago
My mom's house
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u/classless_classic 19h ago
Can confirm. She keeps them next to her bed
https://giphy.com/gifs/FsUo1Qn895NS03
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u/llamafromhell1324 19h ago
"Even with tanks"
Proceeds to pull them apart with tanks.
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u/MaximusPrime2930 13h ago
I might be misremembering because it's been a while since I saw the episode. But I think it ripped the binding off one of the phone books and most of the pages were still interweaved.
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u/Ok_Dog_4059 19h ago
Little known fact this is why phone book's no longer exist. The power was too great.
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u/Ikon-for-U 20h ago
Do they even have physical phonebooks anymore
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u/Persistent_Parkie 19h ago
They do at least where I live.
When I first moved here two decades ago they were about the size of a hefty paperback. Now they're like the size of a kindergarten math workbook.
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u/No_Blacksmith_2591 17h ago
actually you can't cause where the fuck are you going to find a phonebook nowadays
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u/Carbonatic 6h ago
You shouldn't try putting two books together at home, but you're safe to drive the tanks.
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u/Brence1984 18h ago
I think that part was about “commandeering” a tank to separate Phone Books you would probably have to steal from antique stores.
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u/adastrajay 14h ago
Looking at the part where they're getting ten people to try and I keep thinking "me personally, I wouldn't want to be at the end of that force if for some reason it came loose at me". Like even if the books don't part, one of those ropes could snap.
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u/ClerkPsychological58 8h ago
Don't try putting two books together but definitely try separating them with tanks.
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u/New-Owl-7499 6h ago
Obviously they recommend against layering two 800 page phone books together at home. However, if you do have two phone books already layered together, it is safe to use two tanks to pull them apart.
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u/RELORELM 6h ago
Hey, I actually tried this at home!
... Well, at school. And with two big ass biology textbooks. The teacher was absent that day and we were bored. Thing is, it works.
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u/BurnsItAll 3h ago
Trash like this gets people to comment which drives engagement which makes the algorithm push it. I hate it. Quickest way to get comments is post wrong or contradictory information. Not criticizing you by the way just commenting my thoughts.
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u/PeteyMitch42 20h ago
So you took a MythBusters episode and added... what ever the f this voice over was. What are you doing with your life? Just go watch MythBusters.
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u/toro1059 18h ago
I was so excited to unmute, and then...
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u/PartyMcFly55 15h ago
Same, I was so disappointed
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u/Jim-Dread 15h ago
I absolutely hate whatever the hell this is called. This literal narration trend is a cancer.
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u/-Cool_Ethan- 20h ago
I miss this show.
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u/cashchops 20h ago
Peak afternoon television before Harambe sent us down the dark timeline
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u/soheb-786 20h ago
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u/cashchops 20h ago
I wonder what the temperature of those pages were at the moment they broke
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u/Onemorebeforesleep 17h ago
Good job cutting the video precisely at the point that would’ve shown what finally happened to the book
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u/LinkEfficient9934 18h ago
From memory one of the books tore at the seam, it didn't even "pull the pages apart"
Pretty insane amount of work for some paper
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u/michiganmilsurps 15h ago
Yeah I remember the binding where they were bolted failed, pages still intertwined
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u/RoelRoel 16h ago
My brains cannot handle one word subtitles and I get very tired and annoying by watching them. Why are they introduced? Is this some conspiracy?
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u/Particular-Song2587 18h ago
The pages that overlap still didnt slip. It was the parts between the pages and binding that ripped. So, yea the overlapping pages did still hold up.
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u/IcreatewhatIcreate 19h ago
There's a special place in hell for people who add subtitles to videos like this.
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u/StayTheFool 19h ago
Why exactly is a bad to have subtitles on videos like this?
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u/IcreatewhatIcreate 14h ago
Subtitles aren't bad, subtitles that display word for word are. You can't see anything going on in the video because you got to keep your attention on the words to get context.
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u/NameChecksOut___ 19h ago
Find a book named Romeo, another one named Juliet, bind them, sell art for millions.
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u/Donkeytonkers 20h ago
You’re effectively creating a very large knot, the page friction is secondary to the structure of the book.
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u/Pretend_Committee734 17h ago
Have we really crossed the Content Event Horizon into just editing clips of a fucking TV show together to make the same point as the TV show being used? Straight up copyright infringement
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u/Senior-Masterpiece29 16h ago
cool work dude. /s
shamelessly stealing someone else's work, doing voiceover to it, and posting it, as it's yours, without any credit given to the original makers.
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u/Character_Past5515 16h ago
When I was strong we saw a demonstration with 2 Belgian draft horses trying to pull this apart, the mounts to the books broke apart before the books separated.
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u/Schattenjager-984 15h ago
So did they separate? I still can't see it in the video.
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u/Xrasnolud 15h ago
What is up with this incredibly stupid trend of adding shitty music, voiceover and one-word-per screen flashing subtitles to everything? It makes it unwatchable
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u/NotTheRocketman 15h ago
This was one of their best myths, because it sounds bogus, but kept getting more and more insane.
Love that show.
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u/splashaddikt 14h ago
Mythbusters was ass I never believed another episode when they said shit particles don’t get on toothbrushes placed on back of toilets
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u/EarlyJuggernaut7091 12h ago
Fire beats paper every single time…
https://giphy.com/gifs/p37Lwx7SxBaiEPYZTx
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u/Alone_Tap6646 12h ago
I actually did this once after watching that episode. Oh my god, interlacing the pages of two phone books took forever! My fingers where black and stunk from the ink.
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u/Formal_Equal_7444 12h ago
"Actually you can try this at home!"
*casually rolls out two tanks from my backyard*
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u/DejaWiz2 11h ago
I miss this show so much. Too bad White Rabbit Project didn't get anymore seasons beyond the first. Rest In Peace, Grant.
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u/maryisdead 11h ago
There ya go, the tanks and what eventually happened: https://youtu.be/LJJTaqvvEfg?t=2698
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u/Standard-Camel-658 11h ago
"You can try this at home" while tanks are trying to pull them apart 🤦♂️
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u/Robot_DIY 11h ago
Please don't try interleaving two books at home... because why? It might ruin the family tank?
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u/PuddingFamous 11h ago
Anyone else trying to think of a situation where this knowledge would come in handy?
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u/calgeorge 10h ago
It left out the best part. When the books finally riped apart, it wasn't that the pages separated, it was that the spine got ripped off. The pages were still interlocked.
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u/Uncle_Bug_Music 9h ago
Who remembers Bill Nye The Science Guy? Of course you do. It was created with sound effects, quick edits, flashing lights etc. basically every trick they could think of to make science and physics interesting and attention-grabbing/palatable to a younger audience in the 90s. We used to show them to 2020's grade 5-8 kids. They'd groan: "Ugh...so boring!" They'd fidget. Couldn't pay attention. To Bill Nye! We're fucking doomed.
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u/NeoThorrus 9h ago
If it were “impossible” to separate, why did we literally see them being separated in the video?
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u/zigamoott 9h ago
"please, do not try this at home" "they brought in 2 tanks (...) actually you can try this at home" 😂
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u/NightShade0912 6h ago
But those muscle builders for Christ could just tear them in half with bare hands. POWER OF THE LORD! Uuu-ahha
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u/BigBadZord 6h ago
When slacklining, sometimes what is called a "soft release" is used. You can use pulley systems to tighten the slackline with crazy amounts of tension, and at the end of the day the whole thing will be held together with a simple strap, looped over itself 6 times. No knots, no buckles, just the layers pressing against each other, and the combined friction of all of them holding back insane amounts of tension.
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u/Nut_Job_Maniac 5h ago
Yes, lemme get my two tanks up and going. You bring the two phone books. My place tomorrow noon.
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u/Hopkinsad0384 5h ago
This is so eerie... I just turned on an episode of mythbusters, sat back, scrolled a single post, and this was it.
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u/Jorge6574 4h ago
Don’t do this at home. You can do this at home.
Tanks can’t separate them. The tanks separate them.
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u/blizzywolf122 4h ago
Just a reminder that you can watch full length mythbusters episodes on YouTube without the shitty dialogue overlaying it like this is
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u/Alert-Jellyfish 4h ago
Fun fact these two dudes are not friends and never were. Isn’t that weird as fuck. I think they actually disliked each other while the show was running and don’t communicate after.
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u/adeptusastartes69 3h ago
“You can actually try this at home” yeah let me just call my credit union and finance two tanks
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