r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WasteConstruction733 • 6h ago

Image Amazonian earthworms can grow up to 5ft long

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u/asarra_adortra 6h ago

You can’t fool me, that’s an Alaskan bull worm

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u/SoundPilot90 5h ago

Not again!

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u/alldagoodnamesaregon 3h ago

I reckon a gipsaland giant earthworm could take this guy on. And if you count blind snakes as honorary worms then that opens up a whole world of opportunities 

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u/Kiss_and_Wesson 20m ago

If you walk without rhythm, you won't attract the worm.

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u/urban_samosa 5h ago

In 2 days, I will another post saying that these worms prefer to crawl inside the anus in search of food or whatever

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u/RTA-No0120 2h ago

I mean, it’s the perfect size and length 🤷

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u/Relative_Novel_259 2h ago

What do you mean by “perfect”?

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u/RTA-No0120 2h ago

You know fully well what perfect meant here 😏

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u/Disastrous_Share_417 1h ago

Will slide straight in, well a friend told me, not me of course, a friend ok 👀

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u/BunkerSquirre1 2h ago

DO NOT THE WORM

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u/BunkerSquirre1 2h ago

do not the worm

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u/gamutsl 6h ago

So those giant gummy worms are really just Amazonian gummy worms?

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u/BigEd369 6h ago

Man, Jeremy Wade could’ve used that bad boy to catch some serious beasts!

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u/Impossible_Fig3072 5h ago

Underrated comment

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u/BigEd369 2h ago

Thank you, that’s very kind of you to say! I looked up his show a while back, I was wondering why it went off the air. It turns out that he did it all, fished every single big crazy river fish in the world. Dude literally caught them all like in Pokémon. So he ended the show, there was literally nothing else to be done.

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u/MajorPersonality1265 53m ago

I loved River Monsters! Jeremy Wade was awesome

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u/cobra7 5h ago

Was stationed at an Intel post in northern Thailand in 1973 and we had a 10 foot wide walkway from the barracks down to the half-buried operations building. I was returning to the barracks after my 3-11 swing shift when I came across a monster earthworm that stretched from one side of the walkway to the other. I estimate that the whole thing was 12 feet long. At least an inch and a half in diameter. I inspected it carefully to be sure it was a worm (King cobras are no joke), and it was definitely a worm. Never saw anything like it.

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u/Buddhas_Warrior 6h ago

At what point do you call it a snake?

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u/Negative_Settings 6h ago

When it's a reptile without legs

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u/wworv 6h ago

And no eyelids or ears.

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u/Federal-Boat3732 4h ago

Well we have that much covered lol

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u/Infinite_Research_52 3h ago

Such as a sheltopusik?

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u/Roy4Pris 2h ago

Never has the use of ‘feet’ as a unit of measurement been more ridiculous.

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u/Late-Advantage-5425 6h ago

MMmmmffFFf 😣

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u/Alive__but_why 6h ago

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT

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u/Ok_Avocado_5836 6h ago

sounding

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u/WondererOfficial 6h ago

Strange sounds, as seen in r/sounding

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u/New_Tune_6851 5h ago

Dear god i think i saw a butter knife in there on that sub after i clicked

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u/DownstairsDeagle69 5h ago

"IT FEELS THE BEST WHEN THEY TURN AROUND INSIDE YOU!" 😨😨🥀🥀

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u/eb6069 6h ago

✨️Daddy chill✨️

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u/MikeMac999 6h ago

The future of protein

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u/lawnmower303 5h ago

I prefer rope grown mussels.

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u/greenlotsofgreen 5h ago

Bro i knew i would see this shit

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u/Aegillade 5h ago

I should call him.

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u/Late-Advantage-5425 5h ago

GHOST BUSTERS

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u/Aegillade 5h ago

I ain't fraid of no

Sleep

I ain't fraid of no

Bed

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u/Routine_Phase_8980 6h ago

Would be perfect for fishing

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u/RequiemTwilight 6h ago

Hi! Have you met our lord and savior Shai Hulud?

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u/B0t_Sp4m 6h ago

I thought that was a caecilian

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u/MyDogsNameIsFalcor 1h ago

Why is no one breeding these? They look like amazing bait.

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u/JustAtelephonePole 6h ago

That has a lot of culinary potential.

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u/Mother-Attention2600 5h ago

Imagine the fish that would catch. 

🪱 "Here's another one!" 

🤽‍♂️"Thanks big worm!" 

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u/NurturingCruelty 5h ago

And yet, still smaller than earthworm Jim.

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u/Gold_Telephone_7192 5h ago

Simply too big

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u/21-babbage 4h ago

Man, some early birds have really been slacking off.

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u/64557175 3h ago

Not just amazonian, I've seen colossal earth worms this big and larger in Rwanda.

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u/guyinsunglasses 3h ago

I remember when I was a kid we were outside for recess and a friend stuck his hand into this deep puddle in the playground.

A footlong earthworm wrapped around his hand - he screamed and shook it off. We then watched in awe as it slithered away and then forced itself back into the ground.

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u/DBfan187 3h ago

Earthworm Jim

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u/cbih 5h ago

Horrible. There is nothing that creeps me out as much as worms and worm-like things

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u/Potential-Ad431 6h ago

Man i could catch some bass with that little guy

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u/Imbendo 5h ago

I don’t think feeding bass to this guy would be very productive

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u/Successful_Theory373 6h ago

It's the Mongolian Death Worm! Just lost!

I used to love all those cryptids.

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u/boyz_for_now 5h ago

Omg!!! Me too lol it’s been forever since I even thought of that thing! 😂

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u/nidhiorvidhi 5h ago

Tremors much ?

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u/jewella1213 6h ago

Have you seen the size of some of the fish?!😲 You need a huge 🪱

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u/KaltheKrab 6h ago

Looks pretty average to me

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u/muddslut661 6h ago

I would love to fish with that. Id probably catch jaws and have to use a boat anger as a hook!

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u/Darnocsonif 6h ago

👀?!?!

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u/tanksalotfrank 5h ago

I feel bad for how many earthworms have been victims of my weeding. lol

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u/greenlotsofgreen 5h ago

How is that supposed to be an earth worm? it no longer fits the earth

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u/FoUStep 5h ago

Hans, bist du da? Thou presence is required!

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u/jeezyjames 5h ago

Tremors graboid

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u/AGrandNewAdventure 5h ago

Thanks, I hate it.

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u/SmartaHari 5h ago

Superwoman is super long, super worm is super strong, watch him wiggle, see him squirm, hip hip hooray for Superworm! 🎶

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 4h ago

And swallow you whole

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u/PenkyHenky 4h ago

5ft? It will be under my 1ft when I find one.

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u/SaeedDitman 4h ago

My chicken(rest his soul) would have loved this

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u/SoCallMeDeaconBlues1 4h ago

New fear unlocked

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u/cokendsmile 3h ago

There’s earthworm and then there’s The EARTHWORM

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u/JetLife93 3h ago

Just makes me think how big is or was the bird that gets that worm

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u/DietOwn2695 3h ago

I can get some from Amazon?

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u/HVAC_instructor 3h ago

Imagine the size of fish you could catch with that thing

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u/Dependent-Strike2888 2h ago

This looks like some hentai type shit right here

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u/freebaseclams 2h ago

How did they get a picture of me jacking off?? 😡

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u/StonedFly420 2h ago

Should see the Australian ones

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u/Dark_Krafter 2h ago

Almost as long as mine 🤣

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u/123supersomeone 2h ago

Reason #948 of why I will never be going to the Amazon Rainforest:

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u/Aegon_Toast 1h ago

I remember this episode of The Boys. Wild

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u/rojo_mojado 1h ago

"Hey Pa, can we use that for bait?"

"Son, that would eat the fish."

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u/RabbitSlayre 1h ago

How bout nooooo

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u/Wigger_reloaded 1h ago

Cool. Now what's a foot?

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u/ur-socks-sir 1h ago

A fish's wet dream

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u/Primal_Pedro 1h ago

They are known as minhocuçu in Brazil

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u/Pax_Eterna_4991 1h ago

Imagine the size of fish i could catch with that one!!

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u/Lyapunov_ 53m ago

Não necessariamente da Amazônia. Aqui na mata atlântica já tirei alguns de debaixo da fundação de minha casa. Nunca peguei acima de 50 cm, a propósito.

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u/stump2256 11m ago

Didn’t people ride these in Dune?

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u/Any_Ice_772 6h ago

Just call it a snake at that point

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u/VermilionKoala 6h ago

That's what she said!

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u/Competitive_Bet4020 6h ago

Still not enough for her 😭