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.
- A strawberry isn’t an actual berry, but a banana is.
- Bananas are the most popular fruits in the U.S.
- Bananas are the best-selling items at Walmart.
- Iceland has Europe’s largest banana plantation.
- Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
- The term “Banana republic” was coined in 1904 to describe Honduras.