These Wild Food Facts Will Make You Think Twice About Your Next Meal

Bee Vomit

Putting it quite simply, honey is actually just bee vomit. Forager bees regurgitate nectar from their honey stomach (known as the crop) into a processor bee’s mouth. That processor bee then stores the nectar in its honey crop and regurgitates it to a bee that’s closer to the honeycomb for storage.

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The More You Know

  • The woolly mammoth survived until Egyptian times.
  • The sun and moon appear to be the same size in the sky because of an astonishing coincidence: the moon is 400 times smaller but 400 times closer.
  • There are snakes with two heads, which compete with each other for food.
  • Mattel once tried to sue Aqua over their song "Barbie Girl". The judge literally told them to "chill".
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