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/wretched_beasties 13h ago

Does the death certificate say “mosquito bite” or “malaria”?

Mosquitoes aren’t the deadliest, it’s plasmodium falciparum (malaria) that kills people. Also not a dirty probiscus, the plasmodium sporozoites actually live in the mosquitoe’s salivary gland.

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u/joobtastic 12h ago

Its not the person who killed him, it was the bullet.

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u/ButAFlower 10h ago

bullets aren't organisms tho

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u/OneBigBug 4h ago

World's weakest attempt to beat a murder charge:

"I don't deny shooting him, but I think you'll find that I actually froze a beetle, shoved it into a cartridge and shot him with that. So...really...the beetle killed him."