16 Apple (The Fruit) Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

9. Apples have a large place in Mythology. Not only do people think that Eve ate an apple in the Garden of Eden (despite no Holy Text mentioning an apple…) In Norse Mythology, apples gave eternal youth. In Greek Mythology the goddess Eris uses a Golden apple to start the ball rolling on the the Trojan War. Celtic symbolism considers the apple blossom a symbol of fertility, and in Disney Lore, the Poison Apple is what the wicked queen gives Snow White to put her to sleep.

10. One average sized apple pie (9in) takes around two pounds of apples, which is around 4 apples if they’re very large, or up to six if they’re on the medium-small side. It’s always better to buy one more apple than you need for a pie. Better to have a snack the next day than be an apple short.

11. 25% of an apple’s volume is air, which is why they float when you drop them in water. This is why we go bobbing for apples, instead of drowning for apples.

12. “Apple” used to be a generic term for any fruit that wasn’t a berry, at least through the 1600’s, which is when the earliest English Translations of the Bible were made. Which may be why people think Eve ate an Apple.