As far as I have known, since I was a kid, there are about 17 people who die every ten seconds in the world. Or maybe it's 19? Although I guess that there are about 0.5 billion more people on earth than there were when I was born. But that doesn't change the fact that, every ten seconds, a lot of people die. And there are a lot of interesting and terrible ways to do that! For example, go to Australia. I am relatively certain that a good portion of the problems come from Australia, thanks to its near-infinite supply of vicious and poisonous animals. For example, platypi. There are lots of platypi in Australia, and they are all totally adorable. Of course, that's not mentioning the fact that platypi have poisonous spurs on the back of their legs which will put you in immense pain and kill you. So maybe you should avoid the platypi, go for a swim, perhaps? Except you should wear shoes, because...stonefish! Stonefish, as their name implies, look like...stones! Wow! So you won't be able to see it before you step on it and its spines inject venom into your bloodstream, causing some of the most pain you will ever experience in your whole life. And how do we know this? Because somewhere, sometime, people tried to pet platypi because they're really cute. Or they tried to wade into the ocean, only to step on a stonefish. Or maybe some of them got stung by jellyfish? Anything can happen when you go to Australia.
And I would bet that somewhere, right now, someone just discovered that hippopotami, despite being cute, will gore you quickly and painfully.
Oh, the magic of nature!!
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