Nope, that’s something you have to learn and not everybody knows it.
First, not every human knows that, and second, that phrasing is imprecise. “The calculations of the relative positions of the elements in the Solar System is easier when you perform them treating the Sun as the center and other elements as groups which may have their own center than when you treat Earth as the center” is the precise one.
How to walk on two feet. Other primates can scamper on their hind legs for short distances, but mainly knuckle-walk on all fours. Only humans spend all of their time in bipedal locomotion.
birds. An ostrich is bipedal.
I think our ability to project our mental selves backwards and forwards and time may be unique, but how could we prove it? However, I doubt that many animals spend their time remembering, e.g. that antelope they chased down and ate last week; still less imagining how they’re going to eat next week’s.
On a similar note, long-term planning is probably unique to humans. (Even planning of the “Man, if I ever win the lottery I’ll…” type.) The ability to imagine a hypothetical situation and project ourselves into it seems fairly advanced.
Let’s keep the discussion civil. If you are unable to do so, please refrain from posting further.
I did not read the rest of your post.
There are some humans that do not know that either. It’s not really intuitive knowledge.
Thanks! Learned something new today. Before breakfast even 
As far as extremism, maybe. As a species we tend to do complex things that no other species does. But the examples you give are not things that all humans know. I, for example, don’t really know how to build a space station.
njtt, calling claims “nonsense” is one thing, calling them “ignorant, sentimental, mushy minded nonsense” is getting awfully damn close to calling the people who make those claims ignorant, sentimental, and mushy-minded, which is an insult. (After all, a claim has no feelings, so it can’t be sentimental, correct?)
I suggest you dial the invective way back and take a more civil tone.
No warning issued.
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The way to San Jose.
Dionne Warwick doesn’t know, so not all humans know.
I think an innate sense of dancing (human dancing - that is, improvised, rhythmic music in response to pleasant rhythmic sound), and the level of abstract language that humans know are the best examples so far.
Think animals can’t count? Show you dog three treats and give him two.
Dancing is questionable–check out Snowball. I read a NYTimes article a couple of years ago about this bird, and according to the article, Snowball astonished some scientists who claimed that the ability to recognize and move to a rhythm in dance (or something like that, I forget the exact parameters) was a human trait, and that Snowball the Parakeet might prove them wrong. I make no claims as to the accuracy of my memory, though. Mostly I thought y’all wanted to watch a bird dance to the Backstreet Boys.
For people saying the ability to start fires is universal human knowledge, does it count if you use a match or a lighter? The traditional way of starting fires without technology is a lost art to many people.
I suggest that practically all adult humans, regardless of their own beliefs on the matter, have some familiarity with the concept of gods and religions. As far as we know this is a completely unknown concept to every other species.
Belief in God, belief in supernatural things in general. Belief in luck. Etc. Not that all humans DO believe in these things, but they are all capable. Until you show me evidence of anything other than animals believing in these things or being capable of but rejecting believing in these things, there’s no reason to accept that they do.
Documenting and recording passage of time and seasons. Are there any societies on Earth that don’t use a calendar, or keep track of time in some way?
And crows.
Not sure whether other animals know how to imagine the way we do. This goes back to what I said about story telling . . . communicating things that we know aren’t literally true (actually lying) . . . and passing these stories on to other people. Other animals may use some kind of language, but I think their communication is limited to factual matters. But humans? Even little kids know how to pretend . . . and lie.
According to Mark Twain man is the only animal who can blush or needs to.
But first to mind was our place in the universe. When we look into the night sky we know what we are looking into.
I agree, but I’m not sure whether all humans know this, or accept it.
But everyone knows how to suspend reality by pretending or fantasizing or lying.
Homo sap is the only species that makes lists trying to prove it’s unique. For whatever reason, but probably creationism.