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·      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.

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