When a drone (a male honey bee) mates with a queen bee, its abdomen is ripped open during copulation and it dies soon after.

If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.

Flamingos are able to fly at a speed of approximately 55 kilometers an hour. In one night they can travel about 600 km.

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