Thursday, May 21st
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👄 College student builds electric guitars from scratch
🚫 No, you don’t need 10,000 steps a day
🕷️ This spider is known as the mosquito terminator
👀 Yesterday’s overperformer: 13 World War II shipwrecks seen in stunning detail
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When you blot out a pencil mark, it doesn’t technically disappear.
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ICYMI 🔁
It has no basis in science. And studies suggest that trying to hit it isn’t particularly helpful.
Quiz ✏️
How is patina related to rust?
🤔 it's the copper version
🤔 it's the preliminary stage
🤔 it's the scientific term
🤔 it's the term for reversing it
Find the answer at the bottom of this newsletter. ⬇️
Five Things 🖖
The first one didn’t turn out great. The second one was a very different story.
It even likes congregating in the same places as mosquitoes.
They’re linked to just 49 settlers.
Bovine intelligence isn’t such an oxymoron after all.
Behold a kind of kangaroo you’ve probably never seen before.
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Quiz Answer 📝
How is patina related to rust?
🤔 it's the copper version
Rust refers to corrosion in iron and steel. So patina explains the coloration of some of the most famous outdoor objects.
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