A cricket match at the Test level can last up to 5 days and still end in a draw.

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

The maximum legal weight for a cricket ball is 163 grams — close to a baseball but harder.

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

Particles can exist in multiple states until observed.

Hip-hop culture originated in the South Bronx in the early 1970s and encompasses DJing, MCing, breakdancing, and graffiti art.

Traditional Japanese kabuki theater originally featured women actors — they were banned in 1629, and men have played female roles ever since.

The Library of Alexandria was not burned in a single dramatic event — it declined gradually over centuries.

The first novel written on a typewriter was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain in 1876.