About 60% of people live paycheck to paycheck.

During his entire lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh is known to have sold only a single painting.

About 30% of people meet their partner through friends.

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

The didgeridoo, played by Aboriginal Australians, may be the world's oldest wind instrument — over 40,000 years old.

The sitar, fundamental to Indian classical music, has 21 strings — 7 played and 14 sympathetic.

Shintoism, Japan's indigenous religion, venerates kami — spirits in nature, ancestors, and sacred objects.

Olympic weightlifters follow a precise diet and weigh in the day before competition to make their weight category.

The concept of hell as a place of punishment varies dramatically across world religions — Buddhism's naraka is temporary, not eternal.