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

Photography was originally called 'sun painting' — the word comes from Greek for 'light writing.'

High jumpers use the Fosbury Flop — jumping backwards over the bar — introduced by Dick Fosbury at the 1968 Olympics.

Light behaves as both a particle and a wave simultaneously — this is called wave-particle duality.

Statistics and probability were developed partly to analyze gambling — Pascal and Fermat corresponded about dice games in 1654.

The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, and featured only a single footrace.

There are invisible particles everywhere.

The marathon race commemorates a legendary run in ancient Greece.

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