💬 Quoted… “Now we’ve got people coming on saying I watched you when I was 10 years old. I’m like, f**k.”

• In a recent podcast interview, billionaire investor Mark Cuban said he’s hanging up his metaphorical cleats and retiring from Shark Tank after next season (his 15th on the show). Cuban also offered some insight into how to avoid a bad investment: “I have this rule: the longer the back story, the worse the deal.” And if you're wondering whether he can spot a good investment: Cuban is selling a majority stake in his Dallas Mavericks in a deal valuing the NBA franchise at ~$3.5 billion. He purchased it for $285 million in 2000.

👛🌐 Stat of the Day: A record-high 200.4 million people browsed stores and searched websites for gifts from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday, surpassing analysts’ initial expectations by more than 18 million shoppers, per a new survey from the National Retail Federation. The survey also found each shopper spent an average of $321.41, roughly four dollars less than last year.

🤔 Did You Know?... James Earl Jones was officially replaced as the voice of Darth Vader last year by AI (with Jones’ consent).

📰 Worth a Read: Why you age slower on a plane and other incredibly strange effects of relativity → (BBC Future)