Facts You Probably Didn't Know About Bananas
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Meanderer
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In order to keep this on topic, I'm describing it as salt and pepper shakers designed for your banana. 
layful:
I just thought this was so cool.
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Aunt Bea
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Bananas in med school.
Pappy
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Bad Luck Banana Fact:
Did you know that there were over 1,000 bananas on the Titanic the day it sank?
Five more reasons this superstition might have started:
Deadly spiders loved banana trees
While spider-ridden bananas were being shipped in boats across the ocean from Africa, the spiders would come out at night, kill sailors, bite sailors, and wreak havoc on any ship.
"The Smoking Gun" effect
When a ship would come across wreckage in the ocean (from a ship that had sunk), one of the most common things floating would be the heaps of bananas.
Bananas emit a unique fermentation stench that kills other fruit around them (this is true), thus killing off many of the sailors food supplies on long trips
Termites
The myth was that termites would also come out of the heaps of bananas, eat the wooden ships, and the rest is history…
Fast "Banana boats"
Cargo ships containing bananas had to move across the ocean faster than any other ship (makes sense due to the fact that bananas will rot and go bad). And because of this, the sailors that were accustomed to fishing on other ships began to say that "Banana Boats" were bad luck for fishing as they could never catch anything, but it might have been due to the speed.
Did you know that there were over 1,000 bananas on the Titanic the day it sank?
Five more reasons this superstition might have started:
Deadly spiders loved banana trees
While spider-ridden bananas were being shipped in boats across the ocean from Africa, the spiders would come out at night, kill sailors, bite sailors, and wreak havoc on any ship.
"The Smoking Gun" effect
When a ship would come across wreckage in the ocean (from a ship that had sunk), one of the most common things floating would be the heaps of bananas.
Bananas emit a unique fermentation stench that kills other fruit around them (this is true), thus killing off many of the sailors food supplies on long trips
Termites
The myth was that termites would also come out of the heaps of bananas, eat the wooden ships, and the rest is history…
Fast "Banana boats"
Cargo ships containing bananas had to move across the ocean faster than any other ship (makes sense due to the fact that bananas will rot and go bad). And because of this, the sailors that were accustomed to fishing on other ships began to say that "Banana Boats" were bad luck for fishing as they could never catch anything, but it might have been due to the speed.
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Camper6
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Probably because of truckers shipping them and ripping off a few stalks which no one will miss? Don't take this as gospel. I have no proof or anything else.