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* [[wikipedia:Johnny Appleseed|Johnny Appleseed]]. What most people don't realize is that the apples he grew weren't fit to eat, and were instead used to make hard cider, which was very valuable in the frontier, where its high alcohol content made it easy to store and safer to drink than water in many cases.
* Apple Computer is so named partly to be ahead of Atari in the phone book, and partly because of the long association of the fruit with intelligence and rational enquiry (from Eve through to Newton). Before Apple came along, however, the fruit had something of a negative association in computing, as a cyanide-laced apple was Alan Turing's chosen means of death (he was a fan of Snow White).
* The "other" company to use Apple, [[The Beatles]]' Apple Corps, was inspired by a [http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=herrajuntero.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fherrajuntero.files.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2Faurevoirlejeudemourre.jpg&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fherrajuntero.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F04%2Fgranny-smith-rene-magritte-etcetera%2F Rene Magritte painting]{{dead link}}, and the name was [[Just for Pun]] ("apple core").
* Bringing a whole new meaning to giving an apple to a teacher, physicist and "father of the atomic bomb" [[wikipedia:J. Robert Oppenheimer|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] (unsuccessfully) tried to poison his tutor with an apple covered in toxic chemicals.
* Apples are ofted used as academic symbols at many schools. This is why stereotypically a teacher will have an apple on their desk.
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