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Originally Posted by Sam Granger
How many do you have? Never heard of people having roaches as pets. :)
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??? Are you high? Everyone has roaches. It's just that I keep mine in a cage, and you all let yours run around the house, wild.
I have a bunch. I dunno. 20 maybe.
Here are some roach facts for you. My job is to educate people on the wonderful world of the roach.
If you think you don't have roaches... you're wrong.
Roaches can fit into a crack the thickness of a nickle.
They can survive off of cardboard, or even by eating glue from a stamp.
They like crumbs from your toaster as well.
If you think you toaster doesn't have crumbs... look again.
They can live for more than 7 days without their heads, and the reason they die is from dehydration.
Roaches can get moisture by licking the condensing unit from under your fridge or by licking it from your sink faucet. Remember that next time you get a glass of water from the tap... or brush your teeth.
Roaches can eat food particles left on toothbrushes as well.
In some VERY extreme cases roaches have been known to feed off people.
Roaches can sometimes build immunities to bug sprays within 4 generations if they survive the spray.
Radiologists have found that humans can safely withstand a one-time exposure of 5 rems (A "rem" is the dosage of radiation that will cause a specific, measured amount of injury to human tissue). A lethal dose is 800 rems or more.
The lethal dose for the American cockroach is 67,500 rems and for the German cockroach it is between 90,000 and 105,000 rems. The amount of radiation that cockroaches can withstand is equivalent to that of a thermonuclear explosion.
