Free solo climber Alex Honnold climbed El Capitan (900m) in Yosemite without ropes in 3 hours 56 minutes in 2017.

Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 — a first for a songwriter.

The Tour de France covers approximately 3,500 km over 21 stages and is widely considered the hardest endurance race in sport.

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

The longest recorded rally in professional tennis lasted 643 shots in a match in 1984.

The Blues music genre gave birth to jazz, rock and roll, R&B, and much of modern popular music.

The word 'OK' is one of the most recognized expressions worldwide — likely originated from a playful 19th century American abbreviation fad.

Fencing's three weapons — épée, foil, and sabre — each have different target areas and scoring rules.

Poverty traps occur when poverty itself prevents people from acquiring the resources to escape it.