The fastest recorded tennis serve exceeded 150 miles per hour.

Ennio Morricone composed over 500 film scores — his work for spaghetti westerns remains iconic.

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

Wayne Gretzky scored so many goals in his NHL career that if you remove all his goals, he would still be the all-time leader in points.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows — it was fashionable to shave them in 15th-century Florence.

Most people will earn over $1 million total during their lifetime.

The Banksy shredding incident in 2018 — where a painting shredded itself after auction — actually increased its value.

The Dao De Jing, foundational text of Taoism, is the world's second most translated text after the Bible.

Van Gogh sold only one painting during his lifetime.