What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[The Grand Nudger]

The local watershed struggles to maintain 30% commercial capacity.

[Anomalocaris]

The Amazon river, currently the world’s largest river by discharge volume by a factor of 4, and the Congo river, the world’s second largest river by discharge volume, were once the down stream and upstream halves of one single river, when South American was joined to Africa during the age of the dinosaurs.   That river’s headwater was in central Africa and it flowed west and discharged into the sea on what is now the western coast of South America.

When south American and Africa rifted from each other about 8n million years ago and south Atlantic opened up,  the west flowing Amazon was severed from the Congo.   So it established a new headwater on the east coast of South America on the new plateau recently created by the rifting process.

The Amazon kept flowing west for 60 million more years until the Andes rose up and blocked its exit to the pacific.   So it established yet a third headwater on the newly formed Andes plateau, reversed it direction of flow in its old channel, cut through what is left of the ancient eastern highland of South America to discharge into the Atlantic.

[Fake Messiah]

I learned about cultural taboos among some ethnic groups of central Africa when it comes to eating chimpanzee meat because of their similarity to humans. For instance, among the Bayombe of the DRC and the Bakota of Gabon, eating apes is culturally prohibited for fear that women will give birth to children with a simian face. In the Equateur region of the former Belgian Congo, the bonobo was considered a human that had been transformed in the distant past. In some ethnicities in Congo-Brazzaville, gorillas were considered a reincarnation of the Bantu, while chimpanzees were thought to be similarly related to the Baka Pygmies.

[Fake Messiah]

Ok, this was in 2011 but I just found out about it.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ok, this was in 2011 but I just found out about it.

Slut.

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

Ok, this was in 2011 but I just found out about it.

Not bad, took you only 11 years.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ok, this was in 2011 but I just found out about it.

Not bad, took you only 11 years.

Big, fat, hairy deal. It’s not like this is a news thread.

Boru

[Jehanne]

So sad, as he now gets to die alone. (And, so what?! As if 60 years of faithful marriage was not sufficient??)

[polymath257]

Ok, this was in 2011 but I just found out about it.

I'm guessing that neither one cares by now.

[Fake Messiah]

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were on a flight one time, and Gene handed a piece of paper to a flight attendant and said, “Please give this note to Roger.” The note read, “Mr. Ebert, would you like to see the cockpit?” Gene had signed it, “The Captain.” Roger was quite pleased that the captain would invite him—and not Gene—to tour the cockpit. He walked up to the cockpit door and started knocking on it. All of a sudden, another flight attendant grabbed him and scolded, “You can’t go in there! Nobody goes in the cockpit!” She had to escort him back to his seat. Gene was rolling up and down the aisle with laughter.

https://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cult...tory_.html