Operation CHAOS gathered intelligence on domestic protest movements in the 1960s.

In 2000, a massive fireworks accident damaged part of a Dutch city.

There is a word in Japanese, 'tsundoku', meaning buying books and never reading them.

Aboriginal Australians have oral traditions and songlines that preserve ecological knowledge going back tens of thousands of years.

The Olympic motto is 'Faster, Higher, Stronger.'.

The America's Cup is the oldest international sporting trophy, first contested in 1851.

Beethoven continued to compose music after going almost completely deaf, including his Ninth Symphony.

The Banksy shredding incident in 2018 — where a painting shredded itself after auction — actually increased its value.

Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.