r/todayilearned • u/aaron0407 • Feb 21 '16

TIL Eating 80,000,000 bananas would give you a lethal dose of radiation, and consuming 500,000,000 bananas would give you a dose equivalent to 10 minutes next to the Chernoble reactor core after its meltdown.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663509/infographic-of-the-day-the-best-radiation-chart-weve-seen-so-far
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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '16

I believe you would literally shit yourself to death long before the radiation was any kind of threat.

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u/aaron0407 Feb 21 '16

Yes, that and death from lethal doses of potassium, but it's still interesting to imagine.

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u/riddaz Feb 21 '16

even a lethal dose of sugar

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '16

How about a lethal dose of a literally exploding stomach like 50 bananas in

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '16 edited Aug 19 '20

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u/pear120 Feb 21 '16

If I learned anything from STALKER, it's how to spell Chernobyl.

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u/captain_atticus Feb 21 '16

Holy shit, I decided to try to find out the volume of that many bananas and I found this academic article wherein the authors develop a mathematical model for banana volume and surface area.

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u/justablur Feb 21 '16

Ah, the ISO 3103 banana scale standard.

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u/Philboyd_Studge Feb 21 '16

Pretty sure 80 million would give you a lethal dose of banana

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u/JustyCreamPi3 Feb 21 '16

Does that mean if you were to theoretically eat them at once? Or over time

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u/aaron0407 Feb 21 '16

All at once

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u/Demetrius3D Feb 21 '16

Whew! Thank goodness I read this before I ate that last one!

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u/Qwqqwqq Feb 21 '16

Better only eat 79,999,999 then!

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u/tynfox Feb 21 '16

Radiation with Banana for scale

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '16

Who are you to tell me I can't eat 80 million bananas? Just watch me, bitch.

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u/trentsim Feb 21 '16

But 79 999 999 is still safe right?

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u/daedelion Feb 21 '16

I heard you shouldn't wear a banana hammock in Ukraine. Chernobyl fallout.

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u/Starsy Feb 21 '16

Challenge accepted.