The Strange History of Injuries Sustained by Slipping on a Banana Peel in the US Between 1867 and 2013

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The Strange History of Injuries Sustained by Slipping on a Banana Peel in the US Between 1867 and 2013

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 incident since the introduction of the tropical fruit. Bois notes that the accidents first started in New York City in 1867 but quickly spread across the United States. This is an American story. What we have here is a non-exhaustive compendium of ba…