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Australia sells vacations despite its deadly wildlife

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Come for the Opera House, stay because you were paralyzed by an Inland Taipan. It takes a special kind of marketing genius to convince millions of people to vacation on a giant island where the wildlife actively wants to murder them. Even the cute platypus has venomous spurs, just in case you thought you were safe.

Australia sells vacations despite its deadly wildlife
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