I beg to differ. bonobos also engage in recreational sex, both heterosexual and homosexual. They use to it communicate and to settle power struggles. Can you imagine what international politics would be like if we used sex to settle power struggles? 
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Cervantes: exact date uncertain. Christened October 9, 1547.
Shakespeare: exact date uncertain. Christened April 26, 1564. Usually given as April 23 because it matches his death date.
death: both April 23, 1616. But Spain had changed to the Gregorian calendar and England was still using the Julian, so Cervantes died 10 days before Shakespeare. They died on the same date, but not on the same day.
Llamas are larger than frogs.
There are, with no exceptions, no completely native Korean Martial arts. There are many Korean Martial arts, but almost all of them have either a Chinese or Japanese influence on the founder or progenitor of the art.
I have no cite, but after doing some fairly extensive research for the past 10 years on Korean Martial Arts as a whole, I have yet to find one.
Also, the “blood groove” in knives and swords had nothing to do with blood… twas a place where a heated bar was placed on the blade to change the majority of the blade… leaving the edge softer, to take a better edge. Many modern blades, which are not made in the traditional way, have them added in because it’s expected.
What I’ve heard, regarding the blood groove, is that it’s also there to remove weight from the blade to make it more manageable.
But hey, you know what they say about people and swords:
“He who lives by the sword…dies by the gun.”
Nope. A blood groove, or fuller, is not actually removing any metal. You take your basic blade, and lay it down on your anvil. You then take a heated piece of barstock, and lay it down along the blade… the heat will alter the majority of the metal, and leave an impression from the barstock.
It will change the heft of the blade, but not the actual weight.
And Frank, I personally live by the sword, gun, bazooka, box-cutter or fierce rapier wit… whatever it takes.
I will, of course, die by the Acme Anvil Falling From The Sky.
Yeah, going to want a cite on that. The GE-PW Engine Alliance GP 7176 turbofan on the 747-500X puts out 80,000 pounds of thrust; by 4 that’s only 320,000.
I don’t know what a Pratt & Whitney JT-100 is. On the 747-400 they used Pratt & Whitney PW4056, 4060, or 4062; at 56,750, 60k or 62k lbs, respectively.
I know how to use Google.
An interesting thing that I know is that you can build a jet engine out of a mason jar.
Lasagna is an anagram of anal gas.
The plural of opus is opera.
No matter from what height you drop a cat it always lands on its feet…unless it’s an Irish cat when it will land on its head
See, I was hoping someone would mention that bit about cats. I was having a conversation with one of my sister’s friend’s parents…and he apparently had a relative who was plagued by cats and this relative would pay them a nickel for every cat they killed (I do not support this policy). He went on to say that he and his friends would contrive interesting ways of killing these cats (I do not support this policy) and one of the ways he mentioned was throwing them from atop some height. Someone else involved in the conversation said “But don’t cats land on their feet when you drop them?” to which he replied “They don’t if you tie a little weight around their necks.” (I do not support that policy)
Many, many English words don’t have good rhymes.
There are actually 8 deadly sins but the eighth one is * SO * bad that even God didn’t name it
South Paws?
I know nothing interesting, the average month is 30.4375 days long.
You may not be kidding, but you’re wrong. My foot is noticeably shorter than that. Of course, I’m a normal sized man and I wear size 7 1/2 shoes…
My interesting piece of knowledge: I know a rule for determining whether a number is divisible by 11 which is almost as easy as the well known “add all the digits together” rule for divisibility by 9, but vastly less well known.
Obviously there is a discrepancy here somewhere. Pleasure is part of “sex drive” for most animals, I would imagine. I would guess that it would be better said that “Humans and dolphins are the only animals who have sex strictly for pleasure”. Or how about “they are the only ones that have recreational sex”? :o
Well Max, what is this rule???
And Tristan, the falling Acme Anvil comes for us all…
That means my last g/f was a piglet then
Instead of adding all the digits together and seeing whether the result is a multiple of 9, you add and subtract alternating digits and see whether the result is a multiple of 11
You cannot add your own username to your buddy list.
It is currently unknown if it is due to some mysterious metaphilosophical reason to do with man’s inhumanity towards man, or to save the overworked hamsters.