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It’s a weird, fun fact that as beautiful as it is, everything in Australia wants to kill you. Or at least hurt you real bad. Take, for example, spinifex, the tall grass that grows throughout the desert plains. From far away it looks soft and supple - swaying in the wind.
But this is no Andrew Wyeth bed of grass: spinifex has spikes, thorns,...
