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minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up182·1 year agoThe do start as circles! Bees spin on their butt laying the honeycomb. Mechanical pressure mashes them into hexagons.
minus-squareThrowaway@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72arrow-down2·1 year agoAnd thats why you sometimes find pentagons, its just squished circles.
minus-squareBaroqueInMind@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 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.
The do start as circles! Bees spin on their butt laying the honeycomb. Mechanical pressure mashes them into hexagons.
And thats why you sometimes find pentagons, its just squished circles.
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.