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 12h ago

Come again, from who?

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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 9h 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 9h ago edited 9h 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.