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It's also used in pastry design. If you see gold or silver icing, or really any high-gloss icing, it is likely food-grade shellac responsible for that gleam.The shellac used as a protective sealant and coating for everything from hardwood floors to furniture to fresh produce to cosmetics to pills to dental wax is a secretion of the lac beetle.
Texarkana, Texas is closer to Lake Michigan than to El Paso, Texas.
Did you know... bees can be taught tricks using a fake bee to teach them, and then then other bees can learn the same tricks from the bees that know it?
there's about as much time between the construction of gobekli tepe and of stonehenge as there was between the construction of stonehenge and today.
the white part of bird "poop" is actually equivalent to our pee: it's crystallized uric acid
crows are super brainy. they never forget a human face, have similar brain capabilities as primates, and have their own dialects within groups which they can mimic. they can even learn to "talk" like parrots. they sometimes will bring their favorite humans little trinkets and gifts.
there's about as much time between the construction of gobekli tepe and of stonehenge as there was between the construction of stonehenge and today.
the white part of bird "poop" is actually equivalent to our pee: it's crystallized uric acid
crows are super brainy. they never forget a human face, have similar brain capabilities as primates, and have their own dialects within groups which they can mimic. they can even learn to "talk" like parrots. they sometimes will bring their favorite humans little trinkets and gifts.