- Evangelist Ray Comfort recorded a video arguing the banana displayed many user-friendly features that were evidence of intelligent design. Comfort retracted the video upon learning that the banana is a result of artificial selection by humans and that the wild banana is small and unpalatable.
- Bananas are considered bad luck on fishing boats if found aboard the boat will return to the dock and purge the offending fruit.
- Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.
- The coefficient of friction of a banana on hardwood flooring is 0.083, while ice has a coefficient of friction of 0.05, making a banana almost as slippery as ice.
- Separating bananas from the bunch slows down the ripening process.
- The “Banana Equivalent Dose” uses the banana as a basic unit of radiation when calculating radiation exposure levels, and is the original “banana for scale”.
- China has banned seductive banana-eating while live-streaming to clamp down on inappropriate and erotic online content.
- In the Philippines, there’s banana ketchup. During WWII there was a shortage of tomatoes and had to use bananas as a replacement to replicate ketchup. It’s made from mashed banana, sugar, vinegar, and spices.
- Bananas have more trade regulations than AK-47s.
- Bananas are berries and that the banana tree is not a tree, but the world’s largest herb.
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