💬 Quoted… “I thought, ‘Yeah, it is beaver country, and it has been for millions of years’”

A new species of ancient beaver, recently discovered by UT Austin scientists, has been named after the popular Texan travel center Buc-ee’s. The inspiration for the name? A local billboard spotted by the lead researcher that read “This is Beaver Country,” in reference to Buc-ee’s longtime mascot.

• The newly-dubbed Anchitheriomys buceei lived in Texas ~15 million years ago, and was around 30% bigger than the beavers of today. Rest stops, beavers, morning-themed news brands located in Austin… maybe everything is bigger in Texas.

💼 Stat of the Day: There's always a lot of economic talk about unemployment numbers – but what about overemployment numbers? Per new data from LendingClub, half of all US employees currently have a second (or third) job to bring in extra income.

🤯 Did You Know?... Tom Cruise is the only actor to star in both a Best Picture Oscar winner and a Worst Picture Razzie winner in the same year. (1988: Rain Man and Cocktail, respectively.)

📖 Worth a Read: Online daters are less open-minded than their filters suggest → (The Economist)