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TIL that Louisiana is an observer state of the Francophonie

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m1vWR TIL that in 2015 the European Commission paid 360 000€ for a report to study how much piracy impacts the sales of copyrighted goods. The 300-page report concluded that piracy has no statistical effect on the sales and was quietly buried.
9wNAQ TIL about the mummy of Amum-Her-Khepesh-Ef, which was cremated by the curator George Mead in his neighbor's furnace in 1950.
ZpYDD TIL the Inca Empire had a messenger system so fast it could deliver a message over 300 km (190 miles) in a single day, thanks to a network of elite runners known as "chasquis". It was so efficient that even in Cuzco, hundreds of km away from the sea, the Inca ruler could enjoy fresh fish
BARe TIL A German doctor for the mentally-ill King of Denmark, managed to become the “de facto” regent and instituted many progressive reforms between 1771 to 1772 including the abolition of torture, censorship of the press and ban of slave trade in Danish colonies. He was later executed and dismembered.
YpDn7 TIL: A Hungarian man wrote a book on how to raise a genius, raising three daughters with the methods he pioneered, using chess as an example. His youngest daughter is Judit Polgar, the strongest female chess player of all time.