Apple Facts

Smelling bananas and green apples may help reduce appetite and food cravings, according to research on how scents affect hunger signals.

Steve Jobs was half Arab.

HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common — apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.

If you opened up the case of the original Macintosh, you will find 47 signatures. One for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.

The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.

Steve Jobs' annual salary was $1, just enough to keep company health benefits.

Two of Apple's three founders worked at Atari before starting Apple. Steve Jobs was a technician there, and Steve Wozniak helped design the circuitry for Breakout as a contractor.

Apples are actually part of the rose family.

The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.

An apple and a potato taste nearly identical if you eat them with your nose plugged, because what we call 'taste' is actually 80% smell.

Apple seeds contain amygdalin, a compound that releases cyanide when digested, but you'd need to chew and consume hundreds of seeds to reach a toxic dose.

There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.

Apple experts have created a sparkling apple that fizzes in your mouth.

In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant that she accepted.

Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of programming code.

If you pronounce the names of products wrong in an Apple Store, employees are not allowed to correct you.

As of 2014, Apple has enough money to buy Facebook, or Netflix, Tesla, Twitter, Dropbox, Pandora, and Spotify combined - with $59 billion to spare!

The Redlove Era apple has red flesh all the way to its core.

Before The Simpsons, Matt Groening drew cartoons for Apple computers.

Steve Jobs' biological father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, managed a popular Mediterranean restaurant near San Jose. Jobs ate there a couple of times without knowing the owner was his father. Jandali didn't know either. Years later, when Jobs' biological sister Mona Simpson tracked Jandali down, he casually boasted: "Even Steve Jobs used to eat there. He was a great tipper." That's how Jobs found out.

Steve Jobs had to follow an exact sequence of taps during the first iPhone demo in 2007 — one wrong move and it would crash on live TV. Apple engineers called it the "golden path." They had backup phones ready backstage to swap in if he slipped. The most important product launch in tech history was held together with duct tape.

Dr. Dre was about to become hip-hop's first billionaire when Apple bought his company Beats for $3 billion in 2014. Then he posted a video bragging about it, and Tim Cook used the leak to shave $200 million off - landing Dre just under a billion.

Steve Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985. He sold nearly every share he owned, keeping just one share to attend meetings. With the money, he bought George Lucas's animation studio for $10 million. That studio was Pixar. Toy Story came out 10 years later. Pixar made him a billionaire first.