Here is top 10 amazing facts about cockroaches:
1. Cockroach Eating Contests
If a cockroach is beheaded it will never die because of the loss of its head. The only thing killing it will be the thirst as it can’t drink water without a head. Their respiratory system has nothing to do with the mouth as they can breathe through little pores in their body.
Cockroach Eating Contests
The Six Flags Great America theme park in Chicago came up with a very gag-worthy promotion for Halloween back in 2008. They offered park passes to the winner of a contest to eat the most live cockroaches in the space of five minutes. A doctor advised people against taking part because of the microorganisms that live inside the insects. Nevertheless, the parkresurrected the contest in 2011, citing “popular demand.”
The true risk of this sort of contest was shown in Florida. A competitor named Edward Archbold died shortly after a pet shop held a roach-eating competition with a python as a prize. He suffocated after choking on bits of cockroach that got lodged in his throat. Six Flags decided to call off their contest following the death.
2. A Cockroach Can Cause Many Diseases
Cockroaches love to live in filth and dirty places and in these interesting cockroach facts; this fact is about their contaminating abilities. A cockroach is usually completely enveloped in filth. They can move as fast as 3 miles per hour. It will take only a few minutes for a single cockroach to fully contaminate a house. That’s why they can cause many dangerous diseases among humans.
3. Cockroach Facts: German Cockroaches
German cockroaches are considered the most dangerous than others cockroaches. They are the most common type found in almost every nation. They can cause illness, allergy and in some severe cases breathing problems in humans. They can become fully adult within a time span of 36 days.
4. Daytime Learning
It takes many of us a few hours in the morning—as well as a big dose of caffeine—before we earn the adjective “functional.” The humble cockroach, however, takes not being a morning person to a whole new level, and not just by not being people. What really sets them apart is the fact they’re literally unable to form new memories at the start of the day.
Researchers tested this by attempting to teach roaches to like bad smells. Cockroaches normally dislike peppermint but are totally down with vanilla. A group of researchers trained cockroaches to prefer minty freshness by combining the scent with sugar water, performing this trick at different times of the day. What they found was that in the evening and overnight, the cockroaches were perfectly able to learn that vanilla had betrayed them and mint was awesome. When the same experiment was carried out in the morning, however, they continued to prefer vanilla.
5. Cockroach Facts: Cockroaches Can’t Live Without Water
They are cold blooded and can survive for a month without any food. They usually don’t remain without food for that much long as they can eat anything in their way. Their real problem is the shortage of water. No water for a week can kill them. So primarily they need water to survive not the food.
6. Cockroaches are used as Food in Some Countries
In these cockroach facts, this fact is probably the weirdest of all. Even though they are hated by most people especially women but still there are places in the world where they are served as food. Countries like Ghana, Thailand, Mexico, China and even in some places of America they are served as food. In the November of 2012 a cockroach eating contest was held. But unfortunately the winner of the contest died soon after the competition. He choked to death on the small pieces of roaches in his throat.
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