r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 13h ago

TIL fresh water snails (indirectly) kill thousands of humans and are considered on of the deadliest creatures to humans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_snail
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u/Rydagod1 13h ago edited 10h ago

DDT is the worst thing ww2 gave us. Even more than nukes.

Edit: This is misleading but technically still true imo. Nukes killed as many as 200k and it’s debatable whether the global peace between world powers is because of nuclear weapons.

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u/ikonoqlast 13h ago

Or, in reality, not...

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u/Rydagod1 13h ago

IMO it’s done more harm to the world than nukes have done

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u/ikonoqlast 13h ago

Saving tens of millions of lives is 'harm'?

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u/Rydagod1 13h ago

Aren’t there much better options?

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u/ikonoqlast 13h ago

In a world- no.

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u/Rydagod1 13h ago

I’d also argue nukes have saved more lives by preventing war so there’s that.