Beethoven continued composing after going completely deaf, writing his Ninth Symphony while totally deaf.

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

Archery was the first sport to be included in the Olympics after its original ancient form disappeared from the games.

Coyote is a trickster figure in dozens of Native American mythologies across North America.

The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest particle accelerator.

Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.

The Olympic rings represent the five continents of the world — but no particular ring is tied to a specific continent.

In Norse mythology, Odin sacrificed one eye to drink from the Well of Wisdom and gain cosmic knowledge.

There is a word in Japanese, 'tsundoku', meaning buying books and never reading them.