Are bananas actually that slippery? Could spinach give you superhuman strength? And what the heck is Toon Acid? This week, watch some cartoons alongside our writer and host, Sam Jones, and learn whether their chemistry checks out.
Sources:
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit behind the scenes
- Vitamin deficiencies
- NIH vitamin A fact sheet
- Friction and other aspects of the surface behavior of woven fabrics
- Ig Nobel for banana slipping
- Frictional coefficient under banana skin
- The half-life of facts
- The popeye spinach legend was fake
- Iron in spinach
- Was the “decimal point error” real?
- USFDA Iron
- How the spinach, Popeye and iron decimal point error myth was finally bust
- NIH tox net terpentine
- Benzene
- Acetone
- Monkeys, Myths and Molecules
- Cel Vinyls: Materials and Methods
- Mental Floss on Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit Film Review
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