The first animated feature film with synchronized sound was Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie in 1928.

The oldest known musical instruments are bone flutes found in Germany dating to at least 40,000 years ago.

Freestyle skiing's halfpipe event requires athletes to complete tricks at heights of up to 7 meters above the pipe's lip.

The richest 1% of people own more wealth than the rest of the world combined.

Fortune cookies are not Chinese — they were invented in California in the early 20th century.

Shintoism, Japan's indigenous religion, venerates kami — spirits in nature, ancestors, and sacred objects.

The Sydney Opera House features a distinctive shell-like design.

The world's longest musical piece, 'As Slow As Possible,' is being performed in a German church and will last 639 years.

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