💬 Quoted: “Never have we ever played in front of a crowd this big.”

• All of George Strait’s exes may live in Texas – but the Lone Star state is also home to tons of rabid fans. The “King of Country Music” on Saturday night set a new all-time attendance record for a ticketed US concert, drawing a more-than-sold-out crowd of 110,905 people to Kyle Field, Texas A&M University’s football stadium. This figure eclipses The Grateful Dead’s previous mark of 107,019 set in 1977, and adds to Strait’s significant list of accomplishments (which includes 60 No. 1 singles, the most of any artist in any genre).

🥵 Stat of the Day: Now is probably the time to dig out your combination mini-fan/spray bottle and stock up on freeze-pops, according to meteorologists. Over the next week, 265 million Americans – or 82% of the population – are projected to experience temperatures above 90°F, in what the National Weather Service describes as the first major US heat wave of the year. Major cities most at risk for extreme heat include New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Indianapolis.

🤔 Did You Know? Only six horror movies have ever been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars: The Exorcist, Jaws, The Sixth Sense, Black Swan, Get Out, and the only winner, The Silence of the Lambs.

📰 Worth a Read: 25 Years Before the Wright Brothers Took to the Skies, This Flying Machine Captivated America → (Smithsonian Magazine)