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16 years ago
From my Cockroach-specific Twitter account, www.twitter.com/blattaphile -
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A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes - it also continues to release methane for 18 hours after death.
Ancient Romans called roaches Lucifugia, a blanket term for various nocturnal pests. The word means light-fleeing.
In ancient Greece, physicians routinely mixed cockroach entrails with oil & roses, stuffing the goop into patients' infected ear canals.
Some paleontologists refer to the Carboniferous period as the "Age of Cockroaches". Roaches have hardly changed since then.
A roach can live for about a month without its head also because it does not have blood pressure, and is a poikilotherm/cold-blooded animal.
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Follow my Twitter to see more! I update at least once or twice a week and have been posting since May.
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A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes - it also continues to release methane for 18 hours after death.
Ancient Romans called roaches Lucifugia, a blanket term for various nocturnal pests. The word means light-fleeing.
In ancient Greece, physicians routinely mixed cockroach entrails with oil & roses, stuffing the goop into patients' infected ear canals.
Some paleontologists refer to the Carboniferous period as the "Age of Cockroaches". Roaches have hardly changed since then.
A roach can live for about a month without its head also because it does not have blood pressure, and is a poikilotherm/cold-blooded animal.
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Follow my Twitter to see more! I update at least once or twice a week and have been posting since May.
LeonKatlovre
~leonkatlovre
but how do they eat without a head
