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Re:Researchers fear that a fungus could cripple the world's ... by danieltillett on Friday May 16, 2014 @02:21AM (#7754017)
What I find amazing about bananas is nobody really know where they are from or how long they have been cultivated - the best guess is they are from Papua New Guinea and maybe from as far back as 10,000 years ago [0].

[0] http://cwh.ucsc.edu/bananas/Site/Early%20History%20of%20the%...

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