Debrain – Amazing facts, random facts, interesting facts

flea

Fleas are essential to the health of armadillos and hedgehogs; they provide necessary stimulation of the skin. Deloused armadillos and hedgehogs will die
A flea can jump 350 times is own body length. (say..you jumping the length of a soccer field)thanx seraph

Pope Adrian VI choked to death after a fly got stuck in his throat as he was taking a drink from a fountain
Flies taste with their feet
A fly can react to something it sees and change direction in 30 milliseconds
A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it. (Listen up all you fly haters)
Assuming that all the offspring survived, 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies
A housefly can transport germs as far as 15 miles away from the original source of contamination.

Dragonfly larvae develop under the water and eject water from their anus to propel them for short distances
A dragonfly can fly 25 mph
A dragonfly is also known as “devil’s darning needle”, “horse stinger” and “devil’s steelyard”

Cicadas have their hearing organs in their stomachs, at the base of the abdomen
A cicada has 5 eyes. 2 big red ones and 3 smaller ones to detect light
Cicadas can spend up to 17 years underground eating tree roots
Male cicadas make the loudest noise in the insect world, the exact opposite of that in the human world
The African cicada clicks at up to 106 dB, louder than a chainsaw at 100 dB

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 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

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and white worms like fried pork rinds

The original name for a butterfly was flutterby
What does a Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow,Julia and Great Egg Fly have in common? They’re all butterflies!Thanx Bijou
Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees
Butterflies taste with their feet