People eat more bananas than monkeys. Rab Livingstone tweeted on March 2, 2015:
“People in the UK eat more bananas than monkeys. In 2014 they ate 73,432,384 bananas and only 6 monkeys.”
A slightly changed reddit version was published on March 17, 2016:
“Humans eat more bananas than monkeys. I can’t remember the last time I ate a monkey.”
Twitter
rab livingstone
@rablivingstone
People in the UK eat more bananas than monkeys.
In 2014 they ate 73,432,384 bananas and only 6 monkeys.
9:57 AM - 2 Mar 2015
Twitter
pdiddywoodcock
@pdiddywoodcock
Amazing fact of the day
, In Britain we eat more bananas than monkeys,last year we eat 20 million bananas and only 7 monkeys
12:45 PM - 3 Mar 2015
Facebook
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March 4, 2015 ·
People in the UK eat more bananas than monkeys.
In 2014, they ate 73,432,384 bananas and only 6 monkeys.
Twitter
rab livingstone
@rablivingstone
I eat more bananas than monkeys. I’ve eaten 5,467 bananas and only 2 monkeys.
#OutboastKanye
4:18 PM - 15 Feb 2016
reddit
TIL Humans eat more bananas than monkeys. (self.Jokes)
submitted March 17, 2016 by charina91
I can’t remember the last time I ate a monkey.
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