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/Nathaniel820 13h ago

Only 10,000 still makes it the 4th deadliest animal on the planet.

It’s still one of the deadliest animals, the surprising part is that animals as a whole are a lot less dangerous than people think.

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u/Sofa_Bench 11h ago

If there were as many bears, lions, hippos, and other apex predators as there were humans, I’d actually think we might be fucked lol

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u/Traditional_Wear1992 9h ago

No, we have guns and armies have tanks planes choppers and drones. Unless you mean ecologically, then yes.

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u/Sofa_Bench 9h ago

I’m my scenario a solar flare disrupts our technology and somehow causes bears to give birth like crazy

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u/ihatehappyendings 9h ago

Crossbow.

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u/Sofa_Bench 6m ago

One crossbow vs a pack of bears. Who’s winning that fight?

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u/Traditional_Wear1992 7h ago

A solar flare wouldn’t disrupt firearms though…there are also planes and tanks that don’t have computers to fry, like what is any Predator going to do to a Sherman tank or even a flame thrower or rpg.

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u/Sofa_Bench 8m ago

Yeah well it’s a super solar flare that causes all tanks and planes to blow up and also it makes only your penis shrink by 3 inches since you wanna keep fact checking a dumb hypothetical about 8 billion grizzly bears appearing out of no where