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Grenades and Guts

Season 5, Episode 12, Aired Jun 13, 2007

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Kari Byron

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Robert Lee (XXVI)

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Tory Belleci

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Grant Imahara

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Jamie Hyneman

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By xblvr, Jun 19, 2007

So who would have thunk that the movies might have actually gotten one of these myths right. A body laid out over a grenade will take some of the blast and the shrapnel from the blast saving others in the area. Also putting the grenade is a bucket of water works too. Water resists some of the blast forces. But I did have a question about itthe bucket was small and got blasted itself making some more shrapnel, so I wonder what would happen in a larger body of water. Maybe we will see that in another revisited episode.moreless
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- We learn that the word "grenade" comes from the French word for pomegranate. Apparently older grenades closely resembled the fruit.
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- The TV show seen in this episode showing the exploding fridge was USA Network's Monk.
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