Whistled languages, used in mountainous regions, can carry messages over distances of up to 5 miles.

The Portuguese word 'saudade' describes a nostalgic longing for something loved and lost — it has no direct English equivalent.

The famous 'Wilhelm Scream' sound effect has been used in hundreds of movies since 1951.

Wayne Gretzky scored so many goals in his NHL career that if you remove all his goals, he would still be the all-time leader in points.

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

The longest recorded rally in professional tennis lasted 643 shots in a match in 1984.

The Tour de France covers approximately 3,500 km over 21 stages and is widely considered the hardest endurance race in sport.

The human voice is the only musical instrument capable of producing language simultaneously with music.

Abstract art didn't begin with Picasso — Wassily Kandinsky is generally credited as the first to paint purely abstract works around 1910.