Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

• 💎 54% of all diamonds sold in US jewelry stores last month were real, while 46% were lab-grown; at the start of 2020, those figures stood at roughly 92% real and 8% lab-grown.
• 🌎⚡ Renewable energy sources will generate more power than coal in 2025, and provide nearly half of the world’s power by 2030, per a new International Energy Agency forecast.
• 🏈 Peyton Houston, a high-school sophomore QB in Louisiana, threw for 817 yards in an OT loss last Friday – just 20 yards shy of the all-time HS record set in 2012.
• 💰Elon Musk is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire by 2027, per a recent report; at the start of 2020, Musk was worth ~$28.5 billion.
• 🇪🇸👥 Spain logged a record 21.8 million international visitors this summer – and the three most popular destinations were spots where locals staged anti-tourism protests this year.