There are at least 50 different words for snow in the Inuit languages.

Gymnast Simone Biles has performed skills in competition so advanced they were named after her.

In Chinese mythology, the Jade Emperor rules heaven and earth from his celestial palace.

There's a statue of Jason Voorhees, the “Friday the 13th” serial killer, chained to the bottom of a Minnesota lake.

Olympic weightlifters follow a precise diet and weigh in the day before competition to make their weight category.

Synchronized skating — where teams of up to 20 skaters perform together — is a competitive discipline not yet in the Olympics.

Jazz is one of the few art forms considered uniquely American in origin, developed in New Orleans in the early 1900s.

Coyote is a trickster figure in dozens of Native American mythologies across North America.

In Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi is the acceptance and appreciation of imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness.