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Lateral with Tom Scott

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Do Bees Make Hexagons? Is It the Most Efficient Way to Get That Many Honeycomb Cells?

Bees would rather make circles than hexagons. If you leave bees alone and there's no other honeycomb near them, they will make a circular cell. Tessellation is the most efficient way to get that number of like honeycomb cells into an area.

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