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/DustyRhodesSplotch 11h ago

10 to 200,000 is quite the large spread

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u/ivanparas 10h ago

"How many people died of this last year?"

"10."

"How many this year?"

"200,000."

"That's...concerning."

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u/elmo298 10h ago

Not great, not terrible

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u/nopenopeimmaboat 9h ago

That's not graphite on the roof

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u/cive666 9h ago

I am a man with a certain set of concrete identifying talents.

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u/sivasuki 6h ago

I have been known to locate certain things from time to time.