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Lateral with Tom Scott

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How Do Bees Make Hexagons?

Bees start with cylindrical tubes and if you stack them they become hexagons. The wax is pliable when the bees making the cylinder it just pushes out a lot. It's often the same bee at different points in time because the same bee can be working around. So two bees, or as I mentioned before, not two bees. One bee separated in time of pushing the wax backwards and forwards.

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