Kickstarter just got its 100,000th funded campaign — here are some crazy stats about the company

Kickstarter is celebrating its 100,000th successfully funded project — a photography project about the Falklands War — by releasing a host of statistics about the projects that came before it

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"In the 6 years, 9 months, and 10 days since Kickstarter launched, much has changed and much has remained the same," the company wrote in a blog post. "To celebrate this milestone we took a look at 100 numbers behind those first 100,000 successfully funded projects." 

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Oculus was one of the most successful Kickstarter-backed projects. BI

The crowdfunding site already has some big success stories, the biggest of which is Oculus, the company behind the Rift virtual reality headset that was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion (£1.4 billion)

The site also has some big failures, including Zano, a drone that received £2.3 million ($3.3 million) but never shipped to any backers

Here are some of the most striking stats about Kickstarter projects, according to Kickstarter:

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The 100,000 projects were launched by 86,101 people.

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Spectators watch the action during the Morning Fourballs of the 2014 Ryder Cup on the PGA Centenary course at the Gleneagles Hotel on September 26, 2014 in Auchterarder, Scotland. David Cannon/Getty Images

It took 121 days to reach the first 100 successful projects. It took three days to successfully fund the last 100.

Roman Piekarski adjusts the hands on one of the clocks at Cuckoo Land, his cuckoo clock museum, near Knutsford in northern England, March 27, 2009. The museum has started the two-day task of turning its 600 clocks forward by one hour in preparation for the arrival of British Summer Time this weekend.
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Of those 86,000 people, over 8,530 launched more than one successful campaign.

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Belinda Bencic of Switzerland reacts after her victory over Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark in their Pan Pacific Open women's singles semi-finals tennis match in Tokyo, Japan, September 26, 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino

40 successful projects were launched by Kickstarter employees.

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The highest number of updates on the progress of a project is 301.

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A pile of love letters. aw2sl

The average distance between the backer and the creator of the project is 2,317.09 miles.

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There has been one marriage between a backer and a creator.

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One successful project won an Oscar.

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"Inocente," a film about the coming-of-age of a 15-year-old girl in California, won the 2013 award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

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Lenka Clayton and Michael Crowe are planning on sending mysterious letters to every person on earth and have sent 2,132 so far.

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2,217 Freedom of Information requests have been sent to over 1,000 government agencies using the first-ever FOIA machine.

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274 projects that were inspired by Shakespeare have been backed.

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David Tennant as Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2008 ALASTAIR MUIR

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70.58% of successful creators have backed another project.

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22,133 music projects have been successfully funded.

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A man with Beats headphones listens to music on an iPhone in Los Angeles, California March 10, 2015. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
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