1.
Surfing will make its debut as an Olympic
sport in Tokyo 2020.
2. There are
no reported cases of runners dying of dehydration during marathons, but there
are plenty of cases of runners dying from water intoxication.
3. A record
$4.79 billion was spent on 14,591 soccer player deals globally in 2016,
according to FIFA. That's about $328,000 per average deal.
4. Max
Factor, an early 20th-century makeup artist to Hollywood actors, coined the
noun "makeup."
5. In Quito,
Ecuador, a group of vigilantes known as "Acción Ortográfica Quito" go
around correcting all the bad grammar they find in graffiti.
6. Italy's
highest court ruled in 2016 that stealing small amounts of food to stave off
hunger is not a crime.
7. Migrating
to another country increases the amount of dopamine in the brain, putting
immigrants at higher risk for developing schizophrenia.
8.
Retroviruses, the virus family that includes
HIV, are nearly half a billion years old.
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