💬 Quoted…​​ “We have a serious problem on our hands that, if not mitigated, could threaten mankind’s survival.”

• Average sperm counts have more than halved over the past five decades (-51.6%), with the pace of decline more than doubling since 2000, per new research published in the peer-reviewed journal Human Reproduction Update. The authors warn that sperm counts are now dangerously close to the threshold that makes conception more difficult without medical assistance.

🏘️📈 Stat of the Day: US household debt rose by $351 billion last quarter, the largest such increase since 2007. Overall, US households owe a record $16.5 trillion in debt, up 8.8% from last year.

🤯 Did You Know?... In the late ‘60s, NASA was worried that astronauts on the Apollo 10 mission – the last rehearsal before the first-ever Moon mission – might attempt an unauthorized landing. So they deliberately didn't give the lunar module enough fuel to leave the Moon’s surface, just in case.

📖 Worth a Read: What if you could diagnose diseases with a tampon? → (MIT Tech Review)