Today I Found Out

The Coming Banana Apocalypse (2015x49)

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→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscr→“the” banana, since the 1960s, the one sold commercially in supermarkets the world over, is the Cavendish banana, named after William Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/commercial-banana-plants-are-perfect-clones-of-one-another/ Resources/Further Reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_balbisiana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_%28genus%29 http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unfortunate-sex-life-of-the-banana http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-06/can-fruit-be-saved http://biology.suite101.com/article.cfm/are_bananas_going_extinct http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/banana.html http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/1846/2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cavendish,_6th_Duke_of_Devonshire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana http://www.healthalternatives2000.com/fruit-nutrition-chart.html Image Credit (Thank you) https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5026/5671051672_37d512c33e_o.jpg http://africagreenmedia.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Banana.jpg http://media.padil.gov.au/species/136609/6010-large.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Delicious_berry_pie,_January_2010.jpg