The Chinese have been making spring pancakes since forever, so technically brunch didn't invent them.
Fun fact: Analysis of 30,000-year-old grinding stones suggests early humans made a pancake-like flatbread from cattail starch.
They took water skiing, turned it sideways, nicked a few tricks from snowboarding, and called it a sport.
Fun fact: The sport didn't exist before 1985, when someone bolted foot straps onto a surfboard behind a boat.