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TIL that the Christian portrayal of the fruit that Eve ate as an apple may come down to a Latin pun. Eve ate a “mālum” (apple) and also took in “malum” (evil). There’s no Biblical evidence that the fruit was an apple.

by /u/cardinarium in /r/todayilearned

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