quotes at random, no. 31

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The walrus is the only living representative of the family Odobenidae, those that walk with their teeth.

The tiny male anglerfish are born without any digestive system, so once they hatch, they have to find a female quickly. When a male finds a female, he quickly bites her body and releases an enzyme that digests his skin and her body to fuse the two in an eternal embrace.

Fangtooth fish are extremely muscular and their teeth are so long that when the jaw is shut, the lower pair must slide into special sheathes on either side of the fish’s brain to avoid impaling it.

When the Louvre museum was being overhauled, they completely remade the roofs, which are made of sheets of lead. The lead was completely replaced and used by nuclear labs for such experiments.

Luckily, I discovered an old green hot dog bun in a bag on top of the fridge and put that in with the bread to teach it the ways of the mold. In this way, the green bun was Yoda.

The best commented code I ever saw in the games industry was the stuff responsible for actually doing the “quarter sucking” in the arcade machines. Talk about tough! It had to deal with real-world timing, anti-theft issues, international currency, and things like the coin box getting full. If this code failed and swallowed the customers’ money, they might destroy the machine in revenge.

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