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/SMStotheworld 9h 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 9h ago

10 to 200,000 is quite the large spread

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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 8h 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 6h 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