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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.

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Credits:
Producer: Andrew Sobey
Writer: Samantha Jones, Ph.D.
Scientific Consultants: Joe Schwarcz, Ph.D. Michael Swain, Ph.D., Leila Duman, Ph.D. Brianne Raccor, Ph.D.

Executive Producer: George Zaidan
Executive Producer: Hilary Hudson

Music:
Steven B. Shapiro—Clown Town

Sources:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit behind the scenes
youtube.com/watch?v=60hCE3ld9yA

Vitamin deficiencies
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6775441

NIH vitamin A fact sheet
ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminA-Consumer

Friction and other aspects of the surface behavior of woven fabrics
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781845695149500132

Ig Nobel for banana slipping
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405451816300253?via%3Dihub#bib5

Frictional coefficient under banana skin
jstage.jst.go.jp/article/trol/7/3/7_147/_article

The half-life of facts
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/309825/the-half-life-of-facts-by-samuel-arbesman/9781591846512

The popeye spinach legend was fake
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1507475/pdf/bmjcred00690-0047.pdf

Iron in spinach
compoundchem.com/2018/07/17/spinach

Was the “decimal point error” real?
https://www5.in.tum.de/~huckle/Sutton_Spinach_Iron_and_Popeye_March_2010.pdf

USFDA Iron
fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/168462/nutrients

How the spinach, Popeye and iron decimal point error myth was finally bust
http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/30230/1/7987_Sutton.pdf

NIH tox net terpentine: toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/a?dbs+hsdb:@term+@DOCNO+204

Benzene
pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Benzene

Acetone
acs.org/content/acs/en/molecule-of-the-week/archive/a/acetone.html

Monkeys, Myths and Molecules
books.google.com/books?id=pEclBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT207&lpg=PT207&dq=popeye+ever+mentioned+iron&source=bl&ots=rEcBrOIrWm&sig=ACfU3U1dTIWMAYW9x_g28DezTZRBxjVunA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiuwpqu5ZHlAhXCxlkKHXh6Dbo4ChDoATADegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=popeye%20ever%20mentioned%20iron&f=false

Cel Vinyls: Materials and Methods
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Mental Floss on Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit Film Review
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Ecdysteroids as non-conventional anabolic agent: performance enhancement by ecdysterone supplementation in humans
link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00204-019-02490-x


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