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Why the Adam’s Apple is Called the Adam’s Apple?

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The origins of this term go all the way back to the Biblical event where Eve gave Adam a forbidden fruit, which is commonly misrepresented as an apple.  The term then basically comes from the legend that when he ate of the “apple”, the piece got stuck in his throat and made a lump.Now, of course, according to the Bible story, it wasn’t an apple Adam and Eve ate of, it was a fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, of which there was apparently only one. more...

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