Interesting facts about cockroaches

 Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve the pain.

Cockroaches can be frozen for weeks and then thawed with no ill effects.

Roaches can withstand 126 g’s of pressure with no problem. People get squished at 18 g’s.

A cockroach can live for a week without its head. After about a week it dies of thirst since it is not able to drink water without a mouth.

If a cockroach touches a human, it runs to safety and cleans itself.

Fried cockroaches are common snacks in Cambodia, as are spiders and rats.

Think that your teenagers are lazy? Cockroaches spend about 75% of their time resting.