The longest tennis match in history lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes at Wimbledon in 2010.

Hip-hop is now the most-consumed music genre in the United States by streaming volume.

The gamelan orchestra of Indonesia uses percussion instruments tuned to local scales that differ from Western temperament.

The international governing body for chess, FIDE, was founded in 1924 and recognizes titles including Grandmaster.

The Ramayana, one of Hinduism's great epics, tells of Prince Rama's quest to rescue his wife Sita from the demon king Ravana.

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

Mozart composed his first symphony at age 8 and had written over 600 works by the time he died at 35.

The concept of karma — actions determining future circumstances — appears in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism.

Many world mythologies feature a world tree connecting different realms — Yggdrasil in Norse myth, Ashvattha in Hinduism.