The Pirah language, spoken by an Amazonian tribe, has no words for specific numbers or colors.

Alfred Hitchcock never won an Academy Award for directing despite five nominations.

Manga's distinctive large eyes were popularized by Osamu Tezuka, inspired partly by Disney characters like Bambi.

The word 'OK' is likely the most widely understood word on Earth.

More people in the world have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet.

Chocolate was consumed as a bitter beverage by the Aztecs long before it was made into solid bars.

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

Pantomime as an art form dates back to ancient Rome and Greece.

Beethoven continued to compose music after going almost completely deaf, including his Ninth Symphony.