Lethal jellyfish stings World's Best Job guy

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It was advertised as the Best Job in the World, so poor Ben Southall, who beat out 35,000 other people to blog about his experiences on Hamilton Island in Australia, probably didn't see this coming. He managed to dodge a myriad of Australia's insanely poisonous creatures and the regular ones that will just eat you. Then, in late December, in his last week on the job, Ben got stung by an Irukandji jellyfish, an almost invisible creature slightly bigger than a match head that can kill you dead.

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