World Facts

Many have heard that rats and cockroaches can survive even a nuclear explosion. But the most viable organism on Earth is a slow-moving, tiny creature with a length of 0.1 to 1.5 mm. Tardigrades look like annelids, with 8 pairs of very primitive legs and a chitinous body. An interesting fact is that the slow-moving can resist temperature fluctuations from -270C (-273C is absolute zero) to 151C. The slow-moving boat is not affected by radiation 1000 times higher than the lethal dose and the pressure is 6 times higher than at the bottom of the deepest ocean (7000 atmospheres). Interestingly, tardigrades can remain in a latent stage for decades and be reborn when conditions become favorable. These animals can fall into a coma when their body size decreases by 85%. There are cases when they came to life after hundreds of years of hibernation in museum exhibits of mosses. However, with constant activity, tardigrades live only one year.   There are more than 1000 s...

Cockroaches have white blood that flows freely through the body. In other words, they do not have blood vessels designed to conduct blood. Interestingly, even the heart of this insect is like a simple tube that pumps blood to the front and back of the body. The eye of this insect has 4000 segments that help to see all directions at one time.   An interesting fact is that a cockroach can live without a head, since the brain of a cockroach is not in the head, but throughout the body. But without a head, they can die within ten days, due to lack of water, because they have nothing to drink. Interestingly, cockroaches spend most of their time (about 75%) in hibernation. Cockroaches are widely used in folk medicine. Cockroach tea is used to treat dropsy, and cockroaches fried with garlic are used to treat stomach upset. In the east, cockroaches are used in dried and powdered form for the treatment of the urinary tract. Cockroaches can live...