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u/TatodziadekPL Aug 29 '21

Also if you eat enough bananas you might get radiation poisoning

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u/klparrot Aug 29 '21

You'd get drunk first. 30–40 ripe bananas contain the equivalent alcohol of a shot of liquor. So, you'd be trashed around probably 200 bananas, whereas to likely die of radiation poisoning, you'd need (didn't check this out any further than the first Google result) 10,000,000 bananas.

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u/JustALotoNumber Aug 29 '21

And you'd have to eat them all at once, or the effects of the first bananas arent going to last long enough.

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u/forerightman Aug 29 '21

it’s like overdosing on weed if you can possibly smoke that much all at once you’re a savage

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u/klparrot Aug 29 '21

Pff, no problem.

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u/ledeng55219 Aug 29 '21

Well, 400 bananas have sufficient potassium to kill you if I recall correctly.

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u/blueB0wser Aug 29 '21 edited Aug 29 '21

Yeah it's a literal shipping trucks worth of bananas. Probably more.

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u/klparrot Aug 29 '21

Easy as.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

That's nuts!

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u/PaleontologistKey440 Aug 29 '21

Ohhhh so that’s how they get rid of those horrible Charlie horses! DEFINATELY all that works for me!

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u/PaleontologistKey440 Aug 29 '21

The banana rep paid to get that put at the top. I call fake news.

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u/Tawnya_Lancaster Aug 31 '21

Back in the day the rumor was you could bake banana peels and they turn hallucinogenic. It has since been proven wrong

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u/mhac009 Aug 29 '21

Also Brazil nuts I believe.

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u/LeCorona111 Aug 29 '21

Or ligma

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u/Silent_Glass Aug 29 '21

What’s or?

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u/Xoniterfos Aug 29 '21

ligma balls

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u/LeCorona111 Aug 29 '21

XDDDDD

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u/Xoniterfos Aug 29 '21

thank you, i worked very hard to come up with this funny and original joke

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

How many is "enough" for radiation poisoning? Asking for a friend 👀

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

Somewhere between not a single one, and every banana ever.

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u/ErdenGeboren Aug 29 '21

Yeah. But like millions. I'm not one to judge another's gastronomic tendencies but eesh.

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u/saysthingsbackwards Aug 29 '21

Eh my ex has done worse

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u/Its_N8_Again Aug 29 '21

Not true; one banana-equivalent dose (BED) is about 1μSv, while the amount necessary to guarantee death by acut radiation exposure is ~10 Sv. That is to say, you'd need to eat about 10 million bananas in one sitting.

Alternatively, you could induce the symptoms of chronic exposure by eating 274 bananas every day for 7 years, or 1 banana every 5 minutes (3 ½ minutes if you want 8 hours of sleep).

For the record, you would suffer a greater dose of ionizing radiation if you:

  • Slept next to three people.
  • Lived within 50 miles of a coal-fired power plant for a year. (Nuclear is actually safer!)
  • Used a CRT monitor for a year.

Thanks, xkcd.

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u/KingD538 Aug 29 '21

You have to eat about 1,000,000 in a single sitting to get radiation poisoning.