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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

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16o7r TIL that Vatican City's GDP is less than the median US income(no idea how that makes sense)
6E6YZ TIL Chanel's directors were Jewish and that during the Nazi invasion of France Coco Chanel used her position as an "Aryan" to claim sole ownership. The Wertheimers, anticipating the move, turned the control over to a Christian French businessman who, after the war, returned the company to them
1Z1W TIL In 1951 a poor woman named Henrietta Lacks donated her cells to science without knowing it. Her cells would be the first “immortal cells” that could be kept alive for medical use. They’ve been used for everything from creating the polio vaccine to cloning.
v1Z77 TIL famed EC Comics artist John Severin refused to draw any horror stories for moral reasons. When publisher William Gaines suggested he was making excuses and just couldn't draw the style, Severin drew something so horrific that it gave Gaines nightmares.
GYR54 TIL that a pestilence very likely killed the Aztecs: within five years, 15 million people – 80% of the population – were wiped out in an epidemic named ‘cocoliztli’, meaning just pestilence