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[quote=SUNNYDREAM,504261]Cockroach is the most disgusting animal in the world. I, like other timid girls, hate cockroach very much. I can’t believe that someone keeps 200,000 cockroaches in his bedroom as his pets.

Kyle Kandilian, a 20 years old student in the USA, has fallen in love with the cockroaches since he first saw the Madagascar hissing cockroaches. He asked his mom whether he could raise a pet cockroach. At the beginning, his mom refused him. As time goes by, his parents accepts his unusual habit. So far, he has raised more than 200000 cockroaches from 130 species in his bedroom.

Once Kyle was asked why he didn’t raise a rabbit as his pet, he said he couldn’t stand the smell of the mammals. He takes his cockroaches to reptile and insect shows and sell them online to those cockroach enthusiasts. According to him, some rare ones, like rhino roaches that will live 10 to 15 years, are sold for 150 to 200 USD. His cockroach business makes him to pay his college tuition debt.

According to Wikipedia, cockroaches were once used as medicine. In the 1870s, many New Orleanians had great faith in a remedy of boiled cockroach tea. The Compendium of Materia Medica claims that ground cockroaches can cure wounds caused by pests and snakes. Boiled cockroaches dispel pathogenic wind and allay fever. It’s said that eating cockroach can cure some types of cancers.

Cockroach is one of the oldest insects in the world. It lives together with dinosaurs but survives until today. According to the biologists, cockroaches will be the only survivors if the global nuclear war occurs. Humans can endure 5 rems nuclear radiation. Once the nuclear radiation exceeds 800 rems, humans will die. The cockroaches can endure 9000 to 105000 rems nuclear radiation. Thus, the cockroaches can survive the nuclear war.[/quote]

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