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cockroach
  • The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war
  • Fried cockroach with garlic is used as medicine for the common cold (unsure)
  • The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter a second
  • If it were human size, it could run at speeds of 300MPH
  • If you cut off the head of a cockroach, it can still survive but will eventually die, but only because it cannot eat without its head
  • Cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second

bees
  • Bees can see ultraviolet light
  • Most honey bees die after they sting people as our skin is elastic, unsuitable for their stingers which are meant for harder inelastic skin. Their venom glands are also torn out in the process. (So removing the stinger by piching the tip is well, in one word, dumb.jk)Thanx Mr Tuvai
  • A bee can travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down on and enjoy that honey properly
  • Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes
  • Some honeybees have been trained to ‘smell’ out TNT in landmines instead of pollen


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