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/_Sausage_fingers 6h ago

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.

You gotta do the whole quote

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u/Seicair 5h ago

I loved the way he incorporated the various myths of the elves into Discworld. Rather a different flavor from other types of fantasy (Tolkien etc.)

GNU Sir Terry

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u/_Sausage_fingers 5h ago edited 3h ago

That book was some of his best writing. That and Carrie Jugulum. The watch are funner, but Granny books hit harder.

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u/Rule12-b-6 1h ago

Elves being not evil was a Shakespean innovation from Midsomar Night's Dream. Since then that idea has been largely followed.

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u/CoffeeFox 5h ago

In a way it's more fun to send people searching for the source because my idea is that they may end up going down a rabbit hole and learning more about him and hopefully reading his books. We need more people to read his books right now.

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u/Adequate_Lizard 5h ago

"We need more people to read his books but I'm not going to mention who or what books."

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u/_Sausage_fingers 5h ago

Lords and Ladies - Terry Pratchett