A soccer ball is one big tessellation, which is a repeating pattern of one or more shapes that covers the plane completely without overlap. In this instance, however, the soccer ball is a curved surface filled with regular polygons (here pentagons and hexagons). They are able to interlock because the ball is spherical, and so it works that each side of the pentagon is attached to a hexagon. This would not work on a flat surface because the sides would not fully connect. (~KM5)
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