Couples who live together before marriage have mixed divorce outcomes depending on age and intent.

The Greek god Hermes was the patron of thieves, travelers, messengers, and boundaries — a trickster deity.

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

The Vedas, sacred Hindu scriptures, were composed orally for centuries before being written down.

Christianity has around 2.4 billion followers worldwide — the most followed religion.

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

Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single NBA game on March 2, 1962.

Philip Glass and Steve Reich pioneered minimalism — music based on repetitive patterns with gradual change.

Opera was invented in Florence around 1600, originally as an attempt to recreate ancient Greek theater.