Running 26.2 miles in one go is pretty impressive by anyone’s standards (unless you run ultra-marathons on a regular basis), and it will come as no surprise that runners often consume bananas to top up their energy as they race toward the cheap medal and T-shirt waiting for them at the finish. But while most people follow the usual practice of putting the banana inside them to gain the benefits, a few people decided to try it the other way round and climbed inside the banana instead … or at least, they dressed as one.

Running dressed as a banana is enough of a thing that Guinness World Records tracks the times these fitness fruits take to finish—the current record is held by Andrew Lawrence from the UK, who on April 24, 2016, ran the London Marathon in 2 hours 47 minutes and 41 seconds. That seems like a long time to spend in a banana costume, even if you aren’t running, panting, and sweating uncontrollably while you wear it.

If you’re reading this, it’s probably safe to assume you like bananas. The average American eats roughly 25 pounds of bananas a year which, depending on the size of the bananas you buy, means you could be eating as many as 100 bananas per year, which would work out to around two every week. Some people eat way more bananas than that, obviously. (That’s how you get averages.)

However, even when focusing on the most enthusiastic banana-browsers, America doesn’t even come close to eating the most. That honor goes to Uganda, where they eat around 420 pounds of bananas per year on average. Ugandans eat so many bananas that their word for food, “matooke,” is also the name for a common banana-based dish. Uganda is the largest producer of bananas in sub-Saharan Africa, so it’s not really a surprise that they would eat a lot of what they grow. But to eat that many? They must be really, really, bananas for bananas.

You might freak out at the idea of a red banana, but they do exist. Red bananas are part of the Musa acuminata species, though the “red” label serves as a catch-all descriptive term; bananas of this kind can range in color from pink to bright purple.

So why don’t we see all these fun bananas at the local grocery store? According to the Washington Post, after decades of only seeing yellow bananas in our stores, many Americans aren’t interested in non-yellow ‘nanners. How do red bananas taste? When they aren’t ripe, they tend to taste very bitter, with a starchy texture. If that’s not what you’re expecting, it can be an unpleasant shock. For a fruitier flavor, you’ll want to make sure to grab a fully ripened red banana, which tends to be very sweet and creamy. Some actually compare the flavor to strawberry banana, while others note a “hint of raspberry” flavor.

It should be fairly obvious, but if you look into the banana box at the grocery store and the things you see in that box are not bananas, you should be really careful about taking whatever it is home and making a smoothie out of it. See, sometimes smugglers use banana boxes to hide shipments of illegal drugs, like cocaine. Bricks of cocaine are relatively unlikely to make it to store shelves because the people who are supposed to be getting those shipments are usually highly motivated to actually get their product, but it has happened. In 2015, Aldi employees at several stores in Berlin found cocaine bricks packed in their banana boxes, according to the BBC, and the same thing had happened at Aldi Berlin stores about a year earlier, too.

In September 2018, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice received a donation of 45 boxes of bananas that were already ripe and needed to be eaten quickly. But when two sergeants attempted to pick up the yellow fruit, they found white candy instead. Packed between layers of bananas in the shipment were 540 bricks of cocaine, worth around $18 million on the street. It’s a good thing that little surprise didn’t make it to the prisons.

Some people swear by bananas as a quick and cheap cure for headaches. Headache sufferers are instructed to use banana peels in the following way:

– Take a banana, peel it, and slice the peel in two.

– Using an adhesive, tape one half the peel to your forehead.

– Tape the other half of the peel to the back of your head.

– Lie down, relax, and try not to think about how foolish you look.

The headache is said to dissipate in a matter of minutes. The “cure” sounds miraculous, but the science behind it is rather simple. One reader wrote to Chicago Tribune columnist Ann Landers to suggest that what the banana peel might actually be treating is a potassium deficiency that you might not be aware of. If that’s the case, this could also be solved by, you know, eating more bananas, but if you’re not hungry, maybe peel-on-head will do the trick. Again, your mileage may vary. If you’re desperate, it probably can’t hurt.