In Aztec mythology, the sun and moon were created when two gods threw themselves into a fire at Teotihuacan.

The Olympic motto is 'Faster, Higher, Stronger.'.

The America's Cup is the oldest international sporting trophy, first contested in 1851.

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

Banksy, the anonymous street artist, has never been definitively identified despite decades of speculation.

Particles can exist in multiple states until observed.

Jazz is one of the few art forms considered uniquely American in origin, developed in New Orleans in the early 1900s.

Atoms are 99.9999999999999% empty space — if an atom were scaled to the size of a football stadium, its nucleus would be a marble at the center.

The first woman to complete the Boston Marathon officially was Kathrine Switzer in 1967, despite officials trying to pull her off the course.