💬 Quoted… “If I lose in this position, I have to retire from chess.”

• Ten-year-old Faustino Oro, aka the “Messi of Chess,” isn’t lacking in confidence. The youngster uttered the above sentence while playing a quick-fire match against Magnus Carlsen, the No. 1-ranked chess player in the world – and Oro quickly followed through on his smack talk, earning the victory over Carlsen ten moves later. Their match was part of an online “bullet chess” tournament in which players have one minute on their respective clocks for each game.

🧠📈 Stat of the Day: Younger generations in the US have larger brains than their predecessors, according to a new peer-reviewed study. Scientists at UC Davis found Americans born in the 1970s have 6.6% more brain volume than those born in the 1930s, with a consistent increase in brain sizes over time.

🤔 Did You Know?... In both 2008 and 2009, a Texas high school athlete named Bonnie Richardson won the Texas State Track Team Championship entirely by herself.

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