Dressage — precision horse riding — scores horses and riders on over 30 individual movements in a freestyle routine.

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

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

The word 'checkmate' in chess comes from the Persian phrase 'Shah Mat' meaning 'the king is dead.'

Anne Parrish found a childhood book she owned in a Paris bookstore years later.

The Shinto shrine of Ise in Japan is demolished and rebuilt every 20 years — a tradition that has continued for 1,300 years.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

The first graphic novel is often considered 'A Contract With God' by Will Eisner, published in 1978.

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