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TIL that Canadian country folk singer and songwriter Taylor Mitchell was killed by a pair of coyotes while hiking in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Her death is the only known fatal coyote attack on an adult as well as the only known fatal coyote attack on a human ever confirmed in Canada

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