The 'Guernica' by Picasso depicts the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by Nazi aircraft in 1937.

Music exists in every known human culture.

Coyote is a trickster figure in dozens of Native American mythologies across North America.

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

Beethoven continued composing after going completely deaf, writing his Ninth Symphony while totally deaf.

Traditional batik fabric dyeing in Indonesia is protected as an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO.

You are more likely to meet someone with your exact birthday than you expect.

Roughly 10% of people are left-handed.

The Parthenon has no straight lines — all horizontals slightly curve upward and columns lean slightly inward to appear straight to the human eye.