Olympic weightlifters follow a precise diet and weigh in the day before competition to make their weight category.

Celtic mythology featured a world beyond death called the Otherworld — not a punishment but a paradise.

Nearly half of adults worldwide have less than $10,000 in wealth.

The Mona Lisa was considered an unremarkable painting until it was stolen in 1911 — the resulting publicity made it famous.

The most translated document in history is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The oldest known musical instruments are bone flutes found in Germany dating to at least 40,000 years ago.

Mozart could write music before he could write words — he composed his first piece at age 5.

Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime.

Abstract art didn't begin with Picasso — Wassily Kandinsky is generally credited as the first to paint purely abstract works around 1910.