Creation of Eve and Extraction of a Rib from Adam

Adam was the first man created by God, we all know that right? God did not want Adam to be alone so he created a woman to be his helper on this earth that God just created.
There is a controversy in the creation of woman. Did he really create her using one of Adam's ribs or not? Well "Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man..."(Genesis 2:22). There can be a lot of possibilities towards this creation of woman.
The first option is that man may have had 25 ribs and when God took out the rib it became 24 ribs. As a result, both man and woman have the same amount ribs. It would have probably been a little weird to have 25 ribs with one side being unequal or not. I do not have a missing rib so I would not be able to tell you how it feels.
The second option is that he took a part of Adam that we have no idea about. In my study Bible the definition of a rib could mean from Adam's side, did not necessarily mean the rib, it could have been short for the side.
I still believe in the existence of God, there are so many possibilities. I find Genesis 1 and 2 sometimes very vague at times. There are so many possibilities on what certain words can mean.

I just thought that it was very odd that an apple represents evil and good things. The evil thing that the apple represents is the fall of man. When the serpent entices Eve to eat from the forbidden tree. So she does, then she tells Adam to eat the apple. As a result, they see that they are naked and try to hide from God. They have become fallen and humans are now fallen. Now we have to experience the things that are good and evil instead of just being able to know what is good.

Another symbol that the apple represents is for teachers. They used to be given apples from students and now administrations give apple trophies to teachers fro being an excellent teacher. I remember one of my teachers getting an interview from a news station and one of the rewards was a trophy of an apple.

Does it not seem kind of weird how in some way they both represent some kind of knowledge being taught by someone and being learned from a student? The forbidden fruit came off a tree that was knowledge of good and evil. Now teachers are given trophy apples for being amazing teachers. I think that it is rather ironic how this came to be. Maybe they did it on purpose, maybe when the first schools came to being they saw it going it away from traditions and labeled it evil. Why couldn't the forbidden fruit be a mango or a pear? Why did artists use an apple to represent the fall of man? Was it the color? Why could they not use a plum? Does the name have something to do with the choosing of the apple? Why does the apple represent education? I am curious about why this is? Maybe I will try to find the answer. The apple seems to represent knowledge in both cases, but why does it have to the apple.

Another place that the apple is used was in Snow White to put her to sleep