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TIL organizers of the Woodstock festival claimed to the authorities in Bethel, NY, that less than 50,000 people would turn up, despite selling 186,000 tickets in advance. The festival ultimately drew an audience of over 400,000, and both Bethel and NY State banned such events in its wake.

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gMyK8 TIL that the Basque language is a "language isolate" - it seems to have no genetic relation to any other known language. It is thought to be the last surviving remnant of an ancient language family that existed in Western Europe before the arrival of the Indo-European languages from the East.
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