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TIL Saudi oil giant Aramco recorded historic $161 billion profit in 2022, which is the highest-ever annual profit by a publicly listed company

by whatilearned June 2, 2023, 9:50 pm

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TIL Disney is said to spend $10.68 billion every single year to keep their parks open and functional. If you were to split that evenly, each park would cost roughly $3.25 million per day to stay open.

by whatilearned May 22, 2023, 3:57 am

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TIL the most widely consumed alcoholic spirit in the world is baijiu, a Chinese liquor. In 2018, 10.8 billion liters were sold — more than whisky, vodka, gin, rum, and tequila combined.

by whatilearned May 17, 2023, 6:48 am

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TIL the live action/animated 2007-15 Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise grossed $1.4 billion against a budget of just $300 million.

by whatilearned May 14, 2023, 12:36 pm

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TIL that Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name is the first anime not directed by Hayao Miyazaki to earn more than ￥10 billion at the Japanese box office

by whatilearned May 13, 2023, 9:41 am

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An American man wins a $1 billion sweepstakes

by cringeyjokesman May 12, 2023, 2:16 pm

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TIL- “The Pale Blue Dot” photo was taken on February 14, 1990 by Voyager 1 nearly 4 billion miles away from our Earth. “That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.”

by whatilearned May 8, 2023, 8:51 am

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TIL: Over the past 3 years gambling addiction has grown by 30% according to the National Council on Problem Gaming (NCPG) with online betting, sports betting, slots, table games, and mobile gambling coupled with the pandemic. The “social cost” of gambling is estimated to be $7 billion annually.

by whatilearned May 7, 2023, 10:28 am

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You have a billion dollars to make someone’s life miserable, what would you do?

by QuestionGuy May 5, 2023, 12:12 am

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If you were handed 10 billion dollars right now, what would you still never buy?

by QuestionGuy April 30, 2023, 5:43 am

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TIL that at $30 billion, Stan Lee has the highest career-film box office revenue gross of any other actor or actress in history, although his roles have all been brief cameos in Marvel films

by whatilearned April 30, 2023, 1:26 am

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TIL that Steve Jobs was the CEO of Pixar when they released classic films such as toy story and monsters inc. He bought it in 1986 and funded it’s transition from hardware to film projects and eventually sold it Disney for $7.4 Billion.

by whatilearned April 29, 2023, 4:00 pm

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