Gabriel García Márquez launched magical realism as a major literary movement with 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' (1967).

Angels appear in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Zoroastrianism — a shared feature of Abrahamic traditions.

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

Ennio Morricone composed over 500 film scores — his work for spaghetti westerns remains iconic.

Music exists in every known human culture.

Opera was invented in Florence around 1600, originally as an attempt to recreate ancient Greek theater.

The Olympic motto is 'Faster, Higher, Stronger.'.

The Mona Lisa was considered an unremarkable painting until it was stolen in 1911 — the resulting publicity made it famous.

Manga accounts for about 40% of all printed material sold in Japan.