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Saturday, 16 February 2008
some people say, to conquer one's fears, u'll have to know and understand it better.. so here i'll go... some amazing cockroach facts...... Roaches By the Numbers 6 -- Number of legs on a cockroach 18 -- Number of knees on most cockroaches (at least!) 40-- Number of minutes cockroaches can hold their breath 75 -- Percentage of time that cockroaches spend just resting (how lazy can you get?) Bad News Some female cockroaches mate once and are pregnant for the rest of their lives (bummer!). Better Check Those Cracks in the Wall, Young cockroaches need only a crack as thin as a dime (about .5mm wide) to crawl into. Adult males can squeeze into a space of 1.6mm or the thickness of a quarter. Wanna Race? Cockroaches can run up to three miles in an hour. (Hey, it's no marathon, but it's not bad.) You've probably heard the story about cockroaches surviving a nuclear war: we die but they live! We humans can withstand a one-time exposure of 5 rems while the lethal dose for American cockroach is 67500 rems and that of German cockroach is between 90000 and 105000. Crazy! cockroaches can live for more than a week without their head. And yah, they don't live in sunflowers... crazy hardy animal. No wonder it is one of the most ancient animal alive.
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