Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Australia is a country full of wonder and awe, from the Great Barrier Reef to the Sydney

Opera House to Blue Mountain National Park, there are countless sites that make us the

beautiful place that it is.

And yet, Australia is also home to dangerous and even deadly phenomena.

It's become something of a running joke that everything in Australia is trying to kill

you.

Be it land or sea, there's bound to be something venomous lurking just around the corner.

For example, the blue-ringed octopus contains a bite that doesn't hurt it first, until

10 minutes later when the victim suddenly can't breathe or swallow.

And then there's the Tai Pian, one of at least 100 venomous species of snakes in Australia.

Its bite contains enough venom to kill over 100 people.

Backie for us, it lives in remote parts of the country and doesn't really interact

with humans all that much.

And yet, the one place people don't tend to worry about?

The sky.

After all, what could be so harmful up there, except maybe the UV index?

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