Flies are flying at the speed of 6 km per hour.
A pearl can be found in one of a thousand oysters, and only in one of three thousand mussels.
Geese were the first birds domesticated by man.
An ant can lift up to 50 times his own body weight, it can pull 30 times his own weight and when it is drunk it will always fall on its right side.
In Africa poachers kill about a hundred elephants every day.
The largest rose bush is located in the US state Tombstone Arizona. It was planted in the 18th century and when it is in full bloom it has more than 200.000 roses!
