The word 'soccer' originated in England as an abbreviation of 'Association Football.'

The NFL Super Bowl is consistently one of the most-watched annual sporting events in the United States.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony opens with one of the most recognizable motifs in classical music — four notes long.

The didgeridoo, played by Aboriginal Australians, may be the world's oldest wind instrument — over 40,000 years old.

More people in the world have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet.

The most translated document in history is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Maori creation myth describes the world emerging from Te Kore (the void) through stages of darkness to light.

Angels appear in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Zoroastrianism — a shared feature of Abrahamic traditions.

Bach wrote over 1,000 compositions during his lifetime — many were only rediscovered and published after his death.