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Tuesday, June 2nd
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🥵 How heat makes animals dumber
Fil-Yay-o-Fish 🐟
Many of these fish are the size of large dogs.
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ICYMI 🔁
Breathtaking red sprites, the so-called ‘furnace of life,’ and a mesmerizing clash in a winter sky.
Quiz ✏️
During World War II, the U.S. Office of Censorship warned First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for writing about which subject?
⚠️ forms of exercise
⚠️ homemade beverages
⚠️ newly discovered insects
⚠️ the weather
Find the answer at the bottom of this newsletter. ⬇️
Five Things 🖖
Take a cue from road furniture instead.
Her first week didn’t go quite according to plan.
Stay safe from scalding water, wildlife, and a few other dangers.
Birds just sit there. Chamois pick fights. And dogs do something suboptimal.
It’s extraordinarily uncommon, but it appears to have been successful.
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Quiz Answer 📝
During World War II, the U.S. Office of Censorship warned First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for writing about which subject?
⚠️ the weather
Her unacceptable prose included the line, “Between showers yesterday all of us had a little exercise and a little swim."
It was far from the wildest piece of weather censorship.
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