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Jokes about spinach, laundry, politics, and “The Bear” proved popular among the scrollers and double-tappers this year.

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He also cut a piece of the sign to go over the top of the hive to use for the inner cover and said the bees use sap from trees to create glue and seal the cover from the inside of the hive.

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adding that the telegraph network was only made possible because of that tree sap. However, the exploitation of the tree for latex almost brought it to extinction. “So, the metaphor for ...

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