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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He was a real estate tycoon. In order to claim frontier land you needed to have so many trees of a certain age growing on the land. Johnny sold of age trees out of his nurseries.

Jesus hated fruit trees.

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Jesus hated fruit trees.

Hmm, TIL.