That innocent banana sitting on your counter is technically radioactive. Every single banana contains potassium-40, a naturally occurring radioactive isotope that's breaking down and emitting radiation right now.Before you panic: the amount is so tiny that scientists use "banana equivalent dose" as an actual unit of measurement for radiation exposure. You'd need to eat approximately 10 million bananas at once for the radiation to be lethal - and honestly, the massive potassium overdose would kill you long before the radiation would.Here's the really weird part: eating a banana will make you slightly more radioactive for about an hour. Nuclear power plants actually have to account for this when workers come back from lunch - their sensitive radiation detectors can pick up the trace amounts from someone who just ate a banana! The human body itself is naturally radioactive for the same reason, but bananas pack enough potassium-40 to be measurable.
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