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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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What Is the Process of Making Honey?

Bees make honey by consuming a very sugary liquid, some of which goes into an extra stomach called a crop where it mixes with engymes that help preserve it. A bee will puke this nectar into a fellow bee's mouth to pass it on. There's a lot of secretions involved in the process of making honey, and that hardens into wax, which seals off the cell that the honey is in,. And then it can set indefinitely to feed future bees. It takes tens of thousands of puces to make a plastic bear's worth of honey. So that is, atifl something ofor run to keep in mind. I did recently realize it is like

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