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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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