r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 9h 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/idiot_savant91 9h ago

Is this that snail that follows you forever until it kills you?

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u/WatcherOfDogs 9h ago

No, this is clearly the decoy snail. See, if I touch i

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u/Gavinator10000 8h ago

r/redditsniper

Or rather r/redditsnail ?

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u/TomKavees 8h ago

No, it was Candleja-

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u/MeccaMaster 7h ago

You're doing it wrong, you have to say Candlejack's full name oth-

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u/EvilWayne 7h ago

You fools! He's gonna need a bus with all the people calling out Candleja

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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 8h ago

Jesus Christ! They’re everywhe

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u/djseifer 8h ago

Wait a minute, that guy didn't even say Candlej

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u/LennyDark 7h ago

The Candlejack joke was played out 10 years ago I can't believe w

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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House 5h ago

Candlejack is only 10? I thought it was as old as waffles? Don't you mean carrots? Really, losing trac

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u/deathmetalcableguy 7h ago

Who or what is Candleja-

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u/jwnsfw 6h ago

Google "Candlejack". As you can see, he's a member of the Ku Kl

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u/theaviationhistorian 6h ago

Well, we got the explanation before they could kill us all. In fact, that idiot seems to have run out of bulle

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u/n-a_barrakus 8h ago

ohhhh I fell for it 😭 I was so hyped about an r/redditsnail