The world's largest religious pilgrimage is the Kumbh Mela in India — over 100 million people attended the 2019 gathering.

The development of artificial joints improved mobility.

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

Operation PBSUCCESS involved CIA actions in Guatemala in 1954.

The first Olympic marathon winner, Spiridon Louis, was a Greek shepherd who had never trained formally.

Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender and ran a tavern before entering politics.

Brandon Lee died during filming due to a prop gun malfunction.

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

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