💬 Quoted… “Free Fries Fridays.”

• On every Friday through the rest of this year, McDonald’s is giving away free medium-sized french fries with a purchase of $1 or more through its app. Customers can score a collective ~2.5 pounds of free fries across the ten remaining Fridays in 2023, with the offer ending just in time for New Year’s resolutions (thankfully🙌).

🪙 Stat of the Day: Just when you thought it was done – crypto craziness rears its head again. Haycoin, a cryptocurrency never intended to hold any monetary value, is currently trading at $3.5 million per coin, or over 100x higher than the price of bitcoin. The recent jump in price came after Haycoin creator Hayden Adams burned 99.99% of all Haycoins on Saturday – collectively “worth” $650 billion – to separate himself from what he called "silly" speculation around the 0.01% of coins outside of his wallet (56 in total).

🤔 Did You Know?... The Michelin tire company began its now-famous restaurant guide (aka Michelin star ratings) so people would drive more and wear out their tires.

📰 Worth a Read: In Japan, people choose where to pay taxes based on thank-you gifts → (WSJ)