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Our Top 5 Videos of the Week - Friday 11 September

This week's picks include an informative food rationing video from World War II, an amusing phone book experiment from Mythbusters and a Deadliest Catch Greenhorn reaching boiling point.

1. Food Flash: Potatoes
This genuine informational video from the British home office during WWII is one of many broadcast during the period, giving people advice on everything from eggs and milk bottles to cod liver oil and petrol. This short video urges people to "save on bread, eat potatoes instead".

2. Mythbusters: Phone Book Friction
Adam gives Kari and Tory half an hour to complete a simple-sounding challenge: take two phone books with all their pages interwoven together, and pull them apart. Should be easy, right? Especially given that they're allowed to use any tool or material they can find. Surely two expert myth busters can't be defeated by two phone books?

3. Born Survivor - Elephant Dung
Finding nothing but disappointment whilst on a hunt for water in desert conditions, Bear Grylls resorts to an unappetising refreshment to avoid dangerous dehydration and sickness. Never one to turn his nose up at a free drink, Bear uses the liquid squeezed from elephant dung!

4. Destroyed in Seconds - Rocket Launch Anomaly
Cape Canaveral are about to launch a Delta 2 rocket carrying a navigation satellite to kick off celebration for the 50th anniversary of US Air Force. However, after something goes seriously wrong, 250 tonnes of flaming debris shower the surrounding area instead.

5. Deadliest Catch: Greenhorn Drama
One of the crew members aboard the Wizard isn't happy about a photo of the Greenhorn's girlfriend being put up on deck, and keeps defacing it with mud. Greenhorn Josh has had enough, and even the others think that Mouse may have gone too far.

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