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How to Smash a Rock with the Blow of a Fist

“How To Perform Strongman Stunts” by Ottley R Coulter, published in 1952. Learn how to tear a phone book or a deck of cards in halves, drive a spike through a board or sheet of metal, lift and swing a man with your teeth, lift more with one finger than others with two hands, etc.

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    El pez en la coctelera on May 26, 2005 at 2:05 am

    Enlaces Cimarrones: Episodio I

    … tales como partir clavos con los dientes, o pulverizar rozas con los puños.

    Vía: we make money not art

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