A violin contains about 70 individual pieces of wood.

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

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

In 1518, a dancing plague reportedly caused people in Strasbourg to dance uncontrollably for days.

Velociraptors were smaller than often portrayed in movies.

The musical scale we use today was standardized at A = 440 Hz only in 1939 — different standards were common before then.

High jumpers use the Fosbury Flop — jumping backwards over the bar — introduced by Dick Fosbury at the 1968 Olympics.

Particles can exist in multiple states until observed.

Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport.