• 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.
• Roaches are startled by the smallest of air movements and can run for cover in less than .05 seconds.
• There are over 3,000 kinds of cockroaches, including the devastating Asian Roach, which has migrated to this country.
• They are cannibals and take a particular liking to each others' excrement.
• The actor Nicolas Cage ate a cockroach in the movie Vampire's Kiss, just for the shock value.
• In extreme cases roaches will feed off people.
• Cockroaches can transmit a wide variety of diseases and cause common allergic reactions previously thought to be caused by dust.
• If you weighed all the ants in the world, the total weight is more than all the people put together.

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