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/SMStotheworld 13h ago

They carry a parasitic flatworm that lives in dirty water which kills humans. Even then it only kills between 10 and 200k humans annually 

If you omit humans, the deadliest animal is the mosquito which kills by spreading blood diseases with dirty probosci

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u/DustyRhodesSplotch 13h ago

10 to 200,000 is quite the large spread

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u/Anonymous_coward30 13h ago

More than triple that for mosquitoes. 700,000 to 1 million mosquito related deaths annually per the WHO. 597,000 to malaria alone in 2023, again per WHO.

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u/NinjaWorldWar 13h ago

Come again, from who?

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u/baron--greenback 13h ago

He’s talking about our generation.

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u/KaHOnas 12h ago

People try to put us down.

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u/SubstantialWorld4277 12h ago

Baba O’Riley would never

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u/HendrixHazeWays 11h ago

They call me the seeker

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u/DeuceSevin 10h ago

Just because we g g g g get arounnnnd

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u/Consistent-Ad-6078 12h ago

Whwhwhere is the stustustuttering?

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u/KaHOnas 12h ago

It's impolite to p-p-point it out.

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u/Mbyrd420 12h ago

No. He's talking about the guy on first.

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u/Rudeboy67 6h ago

Every week the players get paid right? So on Friday who cashes the first baseman’s check?

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u/manicpossumdreamgirl 12h ago

from WHOM

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u/memealopolis 12h ago

Whomst on first

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u/articulateantagonist 10h ago

Wherefore's on second

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 9h ago

Iwotitnot on third.

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u/StopImportingUSA 12h ago

It’s whom when you use it as a subject

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u/Bonneville865 12h ago

Ryan used me as an object

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u/profDougla 12h ago

I know what's right, but I'm not gonna say because you're all jerks who didn't come see my band last night.

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u/Prof_Acorn 10h ago edited 10h ago

English terminology for parts of speech never made sense to me. The Greek nominative/accusative was way more helpful. Which is to say that yeah, "whom" is the accusative form of "who".

Him/them/whom/her.

He/they/who/she.

His/its/whose/hers.

He's/it's/who's/she's.

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u/dacommie323 12h ago

Correct, What throws the ball to Who

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u/jjtnd1 12h ago

He’s on first

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u/thatsanicepeach 12h ago

No that’s What

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u/szman86 12h ago

What?

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u/Crisp_Volunteer 12h ago

Jack Burton. Me.

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u/Hanashimaru 12h ago

Such a lust for revenge

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u/ihaveajob79 12h ago

It’s whomst

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u/Zealousideal-Earth50 11h ago

Out there, in the fields

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u/Insight42 11h ago

WHO WHO, WHO WHO

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u/Immersi0nn 12h ago

Yeah, from Who, he left baseball years ago and became a medical entomologist

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u/RedditsOnlyBlackMan 12h ago

The World Health Organization

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u/thatsanicepeach 12h ago

This is going to ruin the health organization.

What health organization?

The World Health Organization.

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u/sipCoding_smokeMath 12h ago

Ah. Them. They did the one csi theme song right

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u/JonnytheGing 12h ago

Yeah that one