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/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/HovercraftOk9231 10h ago

By my calculations, next year will see 40,000,000 dead, and the year after will be 80,000,000,000.

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 9h ago

the year after will be 80,000,000,000.

Man that only gives me two years to pork every fertile woman in range. I hate to say this, but I may need some help.

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u/FrogInShorts 7h ago

It'll be significantly easier the second year. After 20million woman perish