A surprising fact about bananas and strawberries
Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't.
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- What happened to the Gros Michel banana?
“The Gros Michel was the world's main export banana until a fungus called Panama disease wiped out plantations in the 1950s, and the Cavendish replaced it.”
Reference: Smithsonian Magazine
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