Tuvan throat singing allows a single vocalist to produce multiple pitches simultaneously.

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

Manga's distinctive large eyes were popularized by Osamu Tezuka, inspired partly by Disney characters like Bambi.

Shamanism — the practice of entering altered states to interact with spiritual worlds — is found on every inhabited continent.

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

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

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

John Cage's 4'33" consists of four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence — performed in concert halls.

More people die taking selfies than from shark attacks in some recent years.