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Electrons aren’t the first think you’d expect to find in neutrino interactions from a predominantly muon neutrino beam from an accelerator neutrino source. But they are found in rare processes, like neutrino-electron elastic scattering, and form the 1/100 component of the beam that comes from decays of muons or kaons. I’ll share a series of physics stories form the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab featuring these electrons (and backgrounds to them) that range from measurements of expected rare processes to tests for surprise gifts from nature.