💬 Quoted… “Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates.”

• Per a WSJ report published yesterday, disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2017 threatened to expose an extramarital affair involving Bill Gates and a Russian bridge player. The threat, which wasn’t followed through, reportedly came after Epstein failed to convince the Microsoft co-founder to invest in his proposed multibillion-dollar charitable fund.

🏘️ Stat of the Day: 78% = the percentage of Americans who currently believe it's a bad time to buy a house, the highest percentage since Gallup first asked that question in 1978.

🤯 Did You Know?... White rice is just brown rice with its outer layer milled off.

📖 Worth a Read: Why birds and their songs are good for our mental health → (WaPo)