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I know they have. The maintenance guy at a past workplace of mine really did not want gameskeepers saying "hi" because there was a decent chance of him putting something in the bed of his pickup truck gamekeepers would be very displeased to see that was going to wind up on a dinner table so it...

Swans aren't going to mess with you unless you're dumb enough to pick a fight with them. BTW: If you were to ever demonstrate what "Plus P Hollow Points will do its Candy ass" you've just committed a federal crime and federal sentences never include "the possibility of parole". EDIT: You've...

Do not mess with cygnets. Their parents are mean, territorial, very protective, and don't take shit from apex predators several times their size (i.e.: us).

A female mute swan weighs about 20lbs, can easily cripple you, and is less than one fith of your size. I will not pick a fight with a swan because I know I will lose.

Chinese emperors also had lots of concubines. The palace eunuchs could be very petty as well. Overthrowing the ruler was something of a national pastime in ancient China.

It wasn't quite the problematic issue some make it out to be. When a genetic catastrophe got the throne they typically didn't last long or have much power. Much of the fighting was because the tangled web of familial relationships made it hard to figure out who was next in line and "I have an...

Hawaiians as well. It used to be fairly common for the guys at the top to marry their sisters and nieces. Daughter meant he outlived her mother.

I don't if the Chinese did it but the Egyptian Pharoahs did not let a little thing like "she's my daughter" stop them from marrying someone.

"A rifle behind every blade of grass." The only country more difficult to conquer than the US is Russia and even that's debatable.

The Chinese would probably claim that they taught Capuchin Monkeys how to make stone knives thousands of years ago. Um, no. Those monkeys figured it out on their own but don't realize that they're making stone tools very similar to the earliest ones made by our pre-human ancestors and used by...

That is totally believable and the swan probably was not going all-out. I've come across pictures of a bald eagle attacking a swan. The swans reaction was along the lines of "You have to be kidding me", "We're actually doing this", and "Ok, I'ma show you how it's done".

Surprisingly enough the Chinese police weren't being oppressive asshats because an upset swan is very capable of making someone need emergency medical attention.

My username is a slight misspelling of the name given to Ramesses II's eldest daughter (and third wife). If I'd spelled it correctly when I picked it my username would be "bintanath". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bintanath

When Ötzi the iceman died in the Italian Alps over five thousand years ago he had an axe made of pure copper, a longbow, and was wearing shoes. Shoes were a new thing back then and probably a Neanderthal invention.

China has never been "end all be all" of civilization. They invented gunpowder but every other society which got their hands on it figured out how to properly use it safely in terrifying ways. The Chinese did not and when the Europeans said hello they were screwed. Hell. If it's circa 1600...