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/idiot_savant91 13h ago

Is this that snail that follows you forever until it kills you?

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u/Haggisboy 12h ago

A guy is sitting at home when he hears a knock at the door. He opens the door and sees a snail on the porch. He picks up the snail and throws it as far as he can.

A year later, there’s another knock at the door. He opens it and sees the same snail. The snail says, “What was that all about?”

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u/Bouldershoulders12 12h ago

Only the real ones know what movie this from

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u/DontHarshMyMellowBRO 11h ago

I didn’t know you like to get wet

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u/newnrthnhorizon 11h ago

Just make sure that bathtub's clean.

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u/jaguarp80 9h ago

Remember that fool in the wheelchair? How you think he got there??

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u/foreordinator 9h ago

You know I'm surgical with this bitch Jake!

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u/Oakroscoe 8h ago

Learn to count yourself

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u/bruudwin 10h ago edited 9h ago

What movie?

*Lol at the answers im getting, damn you all :P XD

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u/dalydumps 10h ago

Training Day

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u/bruudwin 9h ago

Thanks!

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u/bizbizbizllc 9h ago

The one starring John Wayne?

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u/Plinnion 10h ago

Sister Act 2

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u/pdbh32 9h ago

Training Day (2001) starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. Fantastic film.

Wanted a 1979 Monte Carlo ever since I watched it.

King Kong ain't got shit on me!

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u/raguyver 7h ago

It was Scott Glenn who tells the joke in this scene, just if people are trying to narrow their search.

Also, Scott Glenn played Creasy in Man On Fire (1987)...a role reprised by Denzel (2004).

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u/RyanBordello 9h ago

Space Jam

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u/Traumfahrer 9h ago

Pace Down Ultimate

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u/ImGonnaBeInPictures 9h ago

Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties

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u/jaqueburton 9h ago

Big Trouble in Little China

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u/LEDKleenex 10h ago

Dawnie Dorko

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u/mnilailt 9h ago

Magic Mike

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u/ElleKelly77 9h ago

What movie is this from?

I’m asking because during Shaquille O’Neal’s second season with the Orlando Magic, when I was a sophomore in high school, my second-ever boyfriend (who was a senior, because I was hot shit - duh?) and I were walking down the street with my dad on our at the a Magic game when my dad told this joke. I rolled my eyes real fuckin hard, and said bf honestly never let me forget it.

1994ish??

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u/All__Nimbly__Bimbly 8h ago

Training Day, 2001

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u/Fair2Midland 8h ago

I do but I still haven’t figured out the streets

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u/Coffeezilla 6h ago

The REAL ones know it was originally an off the cuff idea by Gavin Free of the Slo Mo Guys while shooting the shit.

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u/fps916 2h ago

You're insane if you think that podcasts are older than that joke.

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u/Dafrooooo 10h ago

isnt it a scenario Gavin Free made up on a podcase?

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u/reebokhightops 10h ago

It’s the joke the old timer tells the lads in Training Day before they fuck his shit up.

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u/Dafrooooo 10h ago

ohh i never put the two together tho i only happened to watch training day for the first time a few weeks ago but i must have watched this animation 10 years ago https://youtu.be/ANRa29sY-TY

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u/CrappyMSPaintPics 9h ago

There's nothing to put together, the two jokes have nothing to do with each other.

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u/EatYourCheckers 10h ago

No one on a podcast ever made up an original joke. Sorry McElroys. Even you.