The capuchin monkey uses stones as hammers and anvils to crack nuts — a tradition passed culturally for centuries.

The lost city of Ubar is mentioned in Arabian legends.

The CIA's Operation Ajax helped orchestrate a coup in Iran in 1953.

The first modern Olympic Games in 1896 had only 241 athletes, all male, from 14 nations.

Particles can exist in multiple states until observed.

The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, in 1924.

In Aboriginal Australian mythology, the Dreamtime is not a historical past but an ongoing spiritual dimension.

Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, directly challenging Hitler's ideology of Aryan supremacy.

The fastest Olympic swim races are completed in under 25 seconds.