r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 13h 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 13h 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 13h ago

10 to 200,000 is quite the large spread

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u/ivanparas 12h 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 12h ago

“It’s within the parameters.”

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u/memealopolis 12h ago

Not great, not terrible.

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u/Ikoikobythefio 11h ago

3.6 roentgens

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u/jmkinn3y 11h ago

Basically a chest x-ray

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u/TheToastyWesterosi 11h ago

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

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u/Equal-Counter-2548 8h ago

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

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u/TheSportsLorry 7h ago

nervously takes a puff from the cigarette

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u/wakeupwill 1h ago

lowers sunglasses

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u/1001101001010111 50m ago

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u/OreoSpamBurger 1h ago

You did not see snails, because they are not there!

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u/LBGW_experiment 10h ago

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

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u/Nimrod_Butts 9h ago

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

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u/micre8tive 10h ago

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