💬 Quoted… “[A] near-catastrophic car chase.”

A spokesperson for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said the couple was pursued by “a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi” in NYC yesterday, resulting in a more than two-hour car chase featuring multiple near-collisions with other drivers and pedestrians.

• Though according to the NYPD’s account of the situation, things were slightly less exciting. Law-enforcement sources told NBC News that the incident was “a bit chaotic,” but nobody was in danger during the pursuit.

📈 Stat of the Day: The overall mortality rate for Americans between the ages of 1 and 19 rose by 10.7% from 2019 to 2020, then by 8.3% the following year, per a new analysis of government data. This marks the largest increase over a two-year period since the federal government began tracking such statistics more than half-a-century ago, and wipes out more than a decade of previous declines.

🤯 Did You Know?... There’s a 103-acre forest in Utah that’s made up of one single living organism. The organism in question, an individual quaking aspen tree called Pando, is between 8,000 and 12,000 years old, with nearly 50,000 individual “stems” that each measure up to 80 feet tall.

📖 Worth a Read: Why Salvador Dalí is the most faked artist in the world → (The Hustle)