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Why Don’t You Make Like a Banana?

In honor of National Banana Split Day, our FactSlaps are a celebration of Tarzan’s favorite to-go food:

  • Bananas are slightly radioactive.
  • There are more than 1,000 species of banana. We eat only one of them.
Bananas: Health Benefits, Risks & Nutrition Facts | Live Science
  • A strawberry isn’t an actual berry, but a banana is.
  • Bananas are the most popular fruits in the U.S.
Bananas: Health benefits, tips, and risks
  • Bananas are the best-selling items at Walmart.
Walmart: Free Bananas
  • Iceland has Europe’s largest banana plantation.
Does Iceland really have Europe's largest banana plantation ...
  • Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
Myth Or Fact: Humans Share 50% DNA With A Banana — Steemit
  • The term “Banana republic” was coined in 1904 to describe Honduras.
The New Banana Republic: Welcome to America | by Hector Vila | The ...

I Scream, You Scream

Double Dark Chocolate Keto Ice Cream (Ridiculously Good) - Keto Pots

Amid the pandemics and protests of the weekend, we failed to acknowledge National Chocolate Ice Cream Day. In recompense, this FactSlap column is dedicated to one of the nation’s leading causes of brain freeze:

  • The first known ice cream recipe was handwritten in the recipe book of Lady Anne Fanshawe in 1665, and it was flavored with orange flower water, mace, or ambergris – an intestinal slurry puked up by sperm whales.Food History Jottings: Lady Ann Fanshawe's Icy Cream
  • The waffle cone was created at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis when Abe Doumar, a traveling salesman, encouraged an ice cream vendor to serve their ice cream on rolled waffles made by another nearby vendor when they ran out of paper dishes.America's first date with the ice-cream cone was at the World's ...
  • Chocolate ice cream was invented long before vanilla, and the first documented recipe for it appeared in the book The Modern Steward, published in Italy in 1692.Antonio Latini - Wikipedia
  • Vanilla ice cream may be the default flavor today, but it was quite exotic and rare in the late 1700s, as vanilla was difficult to acquire before the mid-19th century.17 Things You Might Not Know About Ice Cream
  • Many ice cream flavors popular in the colonial era in the United States are still mainstays – vanilla, strawberry, pistachio, coffee – but others, like oyster, parmesan, and asparagus – didn’t have staying power.Cool … Cool … Ice Cream !!! – Take off with Natarajan
  • The Häagen-Dazs brand was established by two Americans – Reuben and Rose Mattus – and the name was made up to sound Danish and sophisticated. The Danish language does not actually use umlauts.Order Haagen-Dazs Online
  • Ben & Jerry’s was the first company to sell chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream in 1991, and the flavor was created based on an anonymous suggestion on a board in their Burlington, Vt., shop.Meet Chris Miller, corporate activism manager for Ben & Jerry's
  • Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors are full of chunky mix-ins in part because co-founder Ben Cohen has no sense of scent, and a lot of his pleasure in ice cream comes from its texture.Things You Didn't Know About Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
  • Food photographers frequently use modified mashed potatoes as a stand-in for actual ice cream in photos.Ultra-Fluffy or Rich and Creamy Mashed Potatoes | The Food Lab ...
  • An “ice cream headache” happens because the nerve endings on the roof of your mouth are not used to being cold, and they send a message to your brain signaling a loss of body heat.What Is Brain Freeze? | Live Science
  • Apple pie a la mode was invented at the Cambridge Hotel in New York when a customer named Professor Charles Watson Townshend regularly ordered ice cream with his apple pie. Another diner, Berry Hall, coined the dish’s name.On the origins of apple pie a la mode | All Over Albany
  • The sundae was invented when soda jerks in the late 1890s bowed to criticism from religious leaders for serving “sinfully” rich ice cream sodas on Sundays. They started serving the ice cream and syrups without soda water and called it a “sundae.”The sundae was invented when soda jerks in the late 1890s bowed to ...
  • Hawaiian Punch was originally created and marketed as a syrup intended as an ice cream topping, but it became more popular mixed with water as a drink.Image result for hawaiian fruit punch guy | Hawaiian punch, Silver ...

To Boldly Go

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In honor of SpaceX’s successful launch this weekend, we offer FactSlaps, Orbital Edition:

  • You can’t cry on space because your tears won’t ever fall.Astronaut Chris Hadfield Simulates Crying in Space - Tested
  • According to astronauts, space smells like seared steak, hot metal and welding fumes.Space Has a Smell and It's... Stinky
  • In 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima.Did You Know? on Twitter: "In 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen ...
  • Astronauts on the International Space Station witness around 15 sunrises and 15 sunsets every day.Astronauts on the International Space Station See Around 15 ...
  • The International Space Station is the most expensive object ever built, at $150 billion.How the most expensive structure in the world was built - BBC Future
  • A sample of Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree was sent into space to ‘defy gravity.’Isaac Newton's apple tree falls victim to health and safety as ...
  • In 1977, we received a signal from deep space that lasted 72 seconds. We still don’t know how or where it came from.SETI Searches Today - Sky & Telescope - Sky & Telescope
  • The International Space Station is as roomy as a five-bedroom house and travels at 17,500 mph.Space facts - My site
  • Most astronauts become two inches taller in space.NASA's Twins Study: How Spaceflight (Temporarily) Changes the Body ...
  • There is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean.The biggest oldest body of water in universe | Space | EarthSky

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