- Cockroaches have inhabited the earth for more than 250 million years.
- The average roach-infested household contains more than 20,000 roaches.
- Roaches can live up to 20 days without food and 14 days without water.
- They can flatten their bodies and crawl through a crack thinner than a
dime.
- They'll eat anything -- food, leather, hair, and the glue in book
bindings.
They can live off the toothpaste residue in your toothbrush.
- They can survive radiation up to 12 time greater than humans.
- Roaches have been implicated in the spread of tuberculosis, leprosy,
cholera, dysentery and typhoid.
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Roaches are startled by the
smallest of air movements and can run for cover in less than .05 seconds.
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There are over 3,000 kinds of
cockroaches.
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The actor Nicolas Cage ate a
cockroach in the movie Vampire's Kiss, just for the shock value.
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In extreme cases roaches will feed
off people.
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Cockroaches can transmit a wide
variety of diseases and cause common allergic reactions previously thought to
be caused by dust.
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If you weighed all the ants in the
world, the total weight is more than all the people put together.
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