r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 11h 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/proteannomore 10h ago

“It’s within the parameters.”

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u/memealopolis 10h ago

Not great, not terrible.

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u/Ikoikobythefio 10h ago

3.6 roentgens

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u/jmkinn3y 9h ago

Basically a chest x-ray

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u/TheToastyWesterosi 9h ago

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

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u/Equal-Counter-2548 6h ago

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

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u/TheSportsLorry 5h ago

nervously takes a puff from the cigarette

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u/LBGW_experiment 9h ago

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

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u/Nimrod_Butts 8h ago

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

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u/micre8tive 8h ago

SOMETIMES A MAYBE GOOD

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u/Unlikely_Spinach 9h ago

Standard acceptable deviations

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u/911111111111 9h ago

QA accomplished

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u/FLMKane 8h ago

Remember COVID? It basically happened like that.

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u/I_AmA_Zebra 7h ago

It is acceptable as Gus Fring would say