Sunday, 11 September 2016

5 interesting facts about Bananas

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1. Bananas are native to tropical Indo-Malaya and Australia.

2. The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. Indian is the world’s largest cultivator of Bananas followed by China.

3. Nearly every part of the banana plant is useful. The fruit is consumed either ripe or raw. The flowers and trunk are used in Asian cuisine. The leaves are used as temporary utensils or waterproof roofing. The fiber is used to make textiles and paper!

4. Because of their high potassium content, Bananas are naturally radioactive!

5. The Banana has its own emoji! The Unicode standard includes U+1F34C to represent the banana. In HTML, this is &#127820.


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