Was that money paid to “Negroes” for their teeth, or money paid for teeth of Negro origin?
There was a highly-regarded fictional piece written about those teeth a few years ago
Pliny the Elder claimed that Mark Antony lost the naval Battle of Actium because he had too many remora fishes attached to his flagship.
Do remora ever attach themselves to ships? I’d never thought about it.
That didn’t sound right - gold is malleable !
But then i checked and discovered that dental gold is
different from regular gold !
A quick Google search suggests that yes, they do. Some remoras are picky about what host species they’ll attach to, but others will take whatever they can get, so long as it’s moving. Wikipedia notes that they save energy this way; even if they’re not trying to get anywhere in particular, having water rammed across their gills by the movement of their host saves them the effort of having to breathe for themselves.
Absolutely amazing that there is an animal out there that’s too lazy to breathe, yet still exists.
I remember an episode of Babylon 5 where Londo compares the Centauri attaching themselves to humans like remora to sharks.
You clearly haven’t met my ex/boss/landlord/etc.
The only response possible! 
101 if those are all the same person…
“Take my ex-wife and my boss and my landlord and my banker and my realtor and my dealer and my notary publlc… please!”
In addition, there are many noiseless props that are specifically invented to be used in filming. They are used to better control what sounds are made during filming. And if you want more pronounced real sounding sounds they can be added in later.
Some remora attach themselves to software engineers.
Shapnel, the deadly fragments of an explosion caused by a bomb or shell, is named after a person.
Henry Shrapnel (1761 - 1842) was a British army engineer who invented a new type of cannonball that was filled with lead shot that exploded in mid air.
Many languages have at least two words for each cardinal point. In addition to the more common (nouns) north, south, east and west, English also has (the adjectives) septentrional, austral, oriental and occidental, respectively.
It’s pretty much the same in Spanish, which has the commonly used (nouns) norte, sur, este and oeste and the less commonly used (adjectives) septentrional, meridional/austral, oriental and occidental. Interestingly, the adjectives came from Latin (the sept- in septentrional refers to the seven stars of the Big Dipper) and the more commonly used nouns came to Spanish from Old English through French.
“Septentrional” is a new one on me. I’d heard of the other three, but had only ever heard “boreal” as the counterpart to “austral” (e.g. aurora borealis, aurora australis).
For me, too, and it’s what led me to read about all of this earlier today. I’d seen septentrional a few times but could never remember the exact meaning, spelling or pronunciation.
Along those lines, “quotidian” is a fancy word for
daily
This is something I didn’t stumble across so much as realize:
John Lennon (1940-1980) has now been dead longer than he was alive.
Most often used (in my experience) to mean things that are “everyday” in the sense of “ordinary,” rather than in the sense of “occurring once a day”