Multiple transactions on Cardano's Genesis Block

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I was looking at postings about 6th birthday of Cardano, and is looking to a few different dates, some say today (Sep 29th, others say Sep 24th).
The exact reference should be the timestamp in Block 0, so I searched it, and finally found it here:

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It’s a block with hash of 5f20df933584822601f9e3f8c024eb5eb252fe8cefb24d1317dc3d432e940ebb timestamp is 9/24/2017, 4:44:51 AM
Great! Sept 24th it is!

However looking at the number of transactions, it shows that there are 14,505 transactions worth of ₳31,112,484,745.000000

We usually expect Genesis Blocks to have 0 transactions, or perhaps just 1 coinbase transaction. For a Genesis Block to have so many transactions like this, can somebody explain it to me?

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Depends on the explorer how the initial distribution of ADA is presented. In this case, it is as “transactions”, although they are not really transactions, but hard-coded in the Genesis file. See https://book.world.dev.cardano.org/environments/mainnet/byron-genesis.json.

Those are on the hand the ADA reserved for people buying vouchers in the ICO, on the other hand the ADA given to the three founding entities – IOG, Emurgo, and Cardano Foundation. See https://cardano.org/genesis/.

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