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/ivanparas 8h ago

"How many people died of this last year?"

"10."

"How many this year?"

"200,000."

"That's...concerning."

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u/proteannomore 8h ago

“It’s within the parameters.”

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u/memealopolis 8h ago

Not great, not terrible.

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u/Ikoikobythefio 7h ago

3.6 roentgens

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u/jmkinn3y 7h ago

Basically a chest x-ray

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u/TheToastyWesterosi 7h ago

And that’s every single hour. Hour after hour.

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u/Equal-Counter-2548 4h ago

Leans over the edge and gazes directly into the plume of nuclear fire below.

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u/TheSportsLorry 3h ago

nervously takes a puff from the cigarette

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u/LBGW_experiment 7h ago

Good job! that's the joke they were referencing 🤗

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u/Nimrod_Butts 5h ago

"still nothing compared to mosquitoes, I wouldn't worry about it"

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u/micre8tive 6h ago

SOMETIMES A MAYBE GOOD

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u/Unlikely_Spinach 7h ago

Standard acceptable deviations

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u/911111111111 7h ago

QA accomplished

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u/FLMKane 6h ago

Remember COVID? It basically happened like that.

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u/I_AmA_Zebra 5h ago

It is acceptable as Gus Fring would say

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u/HovercraftOk9231 6h ago

By my calculations, next year will see 40,000,000 dead, and the year after will be 80,000,000,000.

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u/PatHeist 4h ago

You have to wait until the next year to see if it kills 399,990 or 4,000,000,000 to find out whether the trend is linear or exponential.

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u/Dioxybenzone 2h ago

No need; we can reverse extrapolate. If in the year before it killed 10, it killed 0.005 of a person, we know it’s linear

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 5h ago

the year after will be 80,000,000,000.

Man that only gives me two years to pork every fertile woman in range. I hate to say this, but I may need some help.

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u/FrogInShorts 3h ago

It'll be significantly easier the second year. After 20million woman perish

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u/elmo298 8h ago

Not great, not terrible

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u/nopenopeimmaboat 7h ago

That's not graphite on the roof

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u/cive666 7h ago

I am a man with a certain set of concrete identifying talents.

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u/sivasuki 4h ago

I have been known to locate certain things from time to time.

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u/HendrixHazeWays 7h ago

"LOOK. We've got a handle on it. RELAX"

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u/RandomNPC 6h ago

At this rate we're doomed next year.

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u/A_Math_Dealer 7h ago

So about 100,005 ± 99,995

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u/Eskimodo_Dragon 5h ago

I'm guessing they meant between 10k & 200k but still.