Banana peels are slippery because they reduce friction when stepped on, making it easy to lose balance and fall. Tap to read in detail.

John Bois of Secret Base shared his own experience of slipping on a banana peel on Broadway in Brooklyn near Bed-Stuy in 2018 before launching into the strange injuries sustained from this kind of ...

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John Curley shares the surprising history of people slipping on banana peels. This is not a joke… it’s funny… but real. Listen to The John Curley Show every weekday at 3pm on KIRO Newsradio ...

Banana peels typically conjure images of someone slipping, but curiously, the thing that lends them their slippery reputation ...

A weekend fraternity retreat at the University of Mississippi ended early on Saturday because a student threw his banana peel away in a tree — and some students who saw it got “frightened ...