Slipping on bananas... everyone knows the gag. But is a banana actually slippery? It doesn't seem to be... so I conducted the experiment.


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00:00 Slipping on bananas?
01:07 The slippery test
03:21 How to walk on bananas
04:08 Banana and skis, same difference
06:07 Banana aquaplaning
07:57 IRL test: is it slippery or not?
08:26 Amazing chemistry
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10:24 Bonus

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