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TIL about Baarle-Hertog, Belgium, which consists of 26 parcels of land largely within the Dutch city of Baarle-Nassau. In WWI, these were safe zones for Belgians resisting occupation in WWI, as the neutral Dutch government wouldn’t allow the Imperial German army to cross their land into these areas.

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TIL about Baarle-Hertog, Belgium, which consists of 26 parcels of land largely within the Dutch city of Baarle-Nassau. In WWI, these were safe zones for Belgians resisting occupation in WWI, as the neutral Dutch government wouldn’t allow the Imperial German army to cross their land into these areas.

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TIL When Eric Prydz presented his song ‘Call On Me’ to Steve Winwood (the song heavily features a Winwood sample), he was so impressed he re-recorded the vocals for Prydz. Eric would later go 20 years refusing to play the song live citing a desire to distance himself from its commercial legacy

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TIL that a plasma center in Haiti called Hemo Caribbean was responsible for amplifying the early HIV outbreak and its becoming into a global pandemic by its unsterile conditions. Hemo Caribbean at its peak exported 1,600 gallons of plasma to the United States monthly, mostly to hemophiliacs.

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TIL that the Great Storm of 1703 was so devastating the Church of England called it God’s punishment for the sins of the nation. It set windmills on fire from overspinning, tore the lead roof off Westminster Abbey, and wrecked so many ships that special news sheets listed the 1000s of dead.

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