“Open Sesame!”
Those well-known words—the password to a cave filled with riches, overheard by the fictional Ali Baba in “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”—are probably based on the fact that the pod of the sesame plant bursts open at maturity, scattering its seeds.
The wild sesame plant, native to …
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