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TIL that the modern practice of crowdfunding projects on the Internet was first successfully pioneered in the late 90s by the British Neo-prog Band Marillion.

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GYK9J TIL that in WWI, the Ottoman Empire lost almost 14% of its population.
QJnva TIL France maintains the largest Exclusive Economic Zone in the world, largely from many tiny overseas territories. It covers approximately 8% of the total surface of all the EEZs of the world, while the land area of the French Republic is only 0.45% of the total land area of the Earth.
VpAm TIL that the Tourette Syndrome Association released a statement after the South Park episode “Le Petit Tourette” where they complimented the show on being “well researched” and that it “served as a clever device” to get accurate information to the public.
porA TIL multilinguals who speak two or more languages change their personality when they change language.
Jd9V TIL in the Duelfer Report by the 1,400 member force by the CIA and Pentagon concluded in 2004 that Saddam Hussein had stopped all nuclear and chemical activities, as well as destroyed all stockpiles, in 1991