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Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/BloombergVisitors to Australia are often struck by how it can resemble a funhouse-mirror version of their own countries.
The duck-billed platypus was so perplexing to European scientists that some initially concluded it was a taxidermy hoax. The so-called Lucky Country’s ability to dodge a recession for 29 years seemed so contrary to the laws of economics that the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis once wrote a debunking of the statistic. The common nickname “down under” hints at a place where the natural order of things is inverted. There’s even a satirical conspiracy theory out there that Australia doesn’t exist.