The Great Gatsby was considered a commercial failure when it was first published in 1925.

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

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows — it was fashionable to shave them in 15th-century Florence.

The tradition of the white wedding dress was popularized by Queen Victoria in 1840 — before that, brides wore any color.

Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 — a first for a songwriter.

Globalization has lowered consumer prices but also suppressed wages in some sectors in developed countries.

K-pop groups are often assembled by entertainment companies using rigorous auditions — trainees can spend years preparing.

The word 'assassin' comes from the Arabic 'hashishin,' a term for a secretive Islamic sect.

Pantomime as an art form dates back to ancient Rome and Greece.