• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The do start as circles! Bees spin on their butt laying the honeycomb. Mechanical pressure mashes them into hexagons.

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      And thats why you sometimes find pentagons, its just squished circles.

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        1 year ago

        pentagons

        Today i learned that this whole time bees were drawing Satanic summoning circles, also originally known as Pagan fertility stars before Christians culturally appropriated it.