🥇 Stat of the Day: Leprechauns beware: Prospectors have found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Hunan claim to have discovered the world’s largest known gold deposit, containing an estimated 1,100 tons of the precious metal valued at ~$83 billion. China is already the world’s biggest gold producer, with its ~410 tons dug up last year accounting for ~10% of global output. But China still uses 3x more gold than it produces, meaning the country is heavily reliant on imports from countries like Australia and South Africa.

• Gold fun fact: If you were to melt down all the gold mined throughout human history (~234,000 tons) and put it into a single cube, it would only measure 72 feet across – slightly shorter than the length of a blue whale.

🤔 Did You Know? Of the 49 World Chess Championship matches held since 1886 – where the reigning champ plays a single challenger across a series of 10+ games – there has only been a single case of checkmate. This is due to a chess tradition where it’s considered unsportsmanlike to keep playing in an overwhelmingly losing position.

📰 Worth a Read: Even in death, college football fans want to be at their favorite stadiums → (ESPN)