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The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: I say, is that a sn--

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Bill Bryson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 8
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