Banana peel
Oct 22 2007, C.S.

How could we have thought so wrongly of a banana peel that it always hits the garbage? Utility of anything seems to be in the eyes of the beholder. The banana peel hasn’t been an exception.

What most of us looked at as waste was converted...

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