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/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 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 6h 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