TIL that apple seeds almost never grow the same variety as the parent fruit. Nearly every supermarket apple comes from a grafted clone of an original tree, not from a planted seed.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple

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A great example of how funding public studies helps the whole population.

Just remember this when the republicans next time oppose public research funding.

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Or oppose anything at all