No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagant…

Bill Bryson
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No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space. ✨ Bill Bryson (2001). In a Sunburned Country, Broadway
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