Native Americans used gar scales as arrowheads, native Carribeans used gar skin as breastplates, and early colonizers wrapped gar skin around their plow blades. In other words, it's really hard to get through gar skin
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The gar swim bladder functions as a lung and they must surface periodically to gulp air. Studies have shown that gar switch between breathing air and breathing water based on temperature. Warm water holds less oxygen, so they breathe air more in warm temps
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Hey we all blunder into doing hard things, and some of us reluctantly do hard things on purpose, but none of us do them because they’re hard.

Personally, I do things not because they’re easy, but because I incorrectly thought they’d be easy

deep cut! `fortunes::fortune("dog")`: "Firstly, don't call your matrix 'matrix'. Would you call your dog 'dog'?
Anyway, it might clash with the function 'matrix'." -- Barry Rowlingson, R-help (October 2004)

Read about the Bowfin, the gar’s closest living relative. #GarWeek