Bananas glow blue under black lights. To the everyday eye under normal conditions, ripe bananas appear yellow due to organic pigments called carotenoids. When bananas ripen, chlorophyll begins to break down. This pigment is the element that makes bananas glow, or fluoresce, under UV lights and appear blue.
100 Mind-Blowing Element Facts
Each zodiac sign belongs to an element. Fire signs are Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, Water signs are Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, Air signs are Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius and Earth signs are Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn.
Cat urine glows under a black light. Black lights can be used to detect any body fluids, but cat urine glows particularly bright under ultraviolet light primarily because it contains the element phosphorus.
68 per cent of breaches involved a human element in 2024. (Verizon)
More than 85% of breaches in 2021 involved a human element (Verizon): The Verizon Data Breach Investigations report for 2021 found around 85% of breaches involved a human element, and 61% involved using an employee’s credentials stolen from the business. In 2021, the majority of attacks came from social engineering, phishing, and Denial of Service attacks, according to Verizon. Particularly, Phishing became one of the most significant threats during the pandemic.