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From 1912 to 1952, the Olympics featured an art competition category, with medals awarded for painting, architecture, sculpture, music, and literature.
After the 9/11 attacks, a Maasai tribe in Kenya gifted 14 cows to the United States in a gesture of sympathy and solidarity.
Silent movie actors were initially not given on-screen credit for fear that they would become famous and subsequently demand higher wages.
A contributing factor to the Titanic sinking was the use of faulty, low-quality rivets made of a lower-grade iron than what was standard for the time.
Liechtenstein realized at the 1936 Olympic Games that its blue-red flag was identical to Haiti’s civil flag, so the following year, they added a gold crown to distinguish it.
“Rock, paper, scissors” originated in China during the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE), where it was known as “shoushiling.”
In Ancient Greece, throwing an apple to a woman was a symbolic gesture of romantic interest, and catching it indicated acceptance of that interest.
Saint Lucia is the only country named after a woman, Saint Lucy of Syracuse, a name given by French sailors.
The first known minted coins were in Lydia in the late 7th century BC using a natural gold and silver alloy. They were created under early Lydian kings to standardize trade and payments.
The Black Death killed so many people in the 14th century that the world population did not recover to pre-plague levels until the 17th century.
The apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity is still alive and growing fruit at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, England.
The Anno Domini (A.D.) system was proposed by a monk in 525 A.D. to calculate the date of Easter, but widespread adoption did not occur until the 9th century.
The term “Third World” initially referred to non-aligned countries during the Cold War but is now more often associated with underdeveloped nations, though this usage is outdated.
About 28.4% of Cambodian adults experience symptoms of PTSD from the Khmer Rouge era, during which almost a third of the population was massacred.
In 1880, the pilgrim ship SS Jeddah was abandoned by its captain in a storm and reported sunk, but it survived until another ship towed it to Aden with almost all 953 passengers alive.
In 1985, the New Orleans lifeguards threw a pool party to celebrate a season without a single drowning. Ironically, a man drowned in the pool that night.
Western mathematicians did not accept negative numbers for over 18 centuries. They treated them as absurd solutions to equations.
Two of the original Mercury 7 astronauts wore regular work boots spray-painted silver in the famous photograph of them in their flight suits.
On December 11, 2004, over 5 million people in Bangladesh formed the longest human chain in history, stretching 1,050 kilometers (652.4 miles) from Teknaf to Tentulia.
Judy Feld Carr, a Canadian music teacher, secretly led a smuggling operation that rescued 3,228 Jews from Syria between the early 1970s and 2001.
Arthur Guy Empey’s 1917 trench memoir “Over the Top” is the first known use of “thumbs-up” as approval, where British soldiers on the Western Front used it to mean “everything’s fine.”
Popularized by the Shakespeare play, many people think Julius Caesar’s last words were “And you, Brutus?” In reality, he said, “You too, my child?”
Despite the German Autobahn’s worldwide reputation as a highway with no speed limits, approximately 30% to 40% of its sections are actually regulated by speed limits.
