When a drone (a male honey bee) mates with a queen bee, its abdomen is ripped open during copulation and it dies soon after. | In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times. | The largest individual flower on Earth is from a plant called Rafflesia arnoldii. Its flowers reach up to 1 metre (3 feet) in diameter and weigh around 10kg. | Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian. | The day after President George W. Bush was reelected in 2004, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.

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