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Letter: Try two swats if you really want to get a fly

Published 3 March 2021

From James Goding, Melbourne, Australia

Following up on readers’ tips for beating pesky flies Letters, 13 February. If you swat a fly simultaneously from two different directions, its on-board computer experiences data overload and the fly remains fixed to the spot.

Issue no. 3324 published 6 March 2021

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