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    Belgian kids got to drink beer during their school lunch

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    There are almost 800 different kinds of beer in Belgium. One kind was very popular till the70's, it was even given to kids at school during their lunch break. Beer to kids? You must be kidding! Well, let's go a bit further into this. The beers we are talking about were so-called table beers, a kind of beer that was specially made for people who can't drink alcohol. So it's was a kind of alcohol-free beer, a kind, because there was some alcohol in it. between 1 and 4 percent alcohol. The most popular table beer was Piedboeuf, it had 1.1 percent alcohol in it and there was a lot of sugar added to make it as sweet as Coca-Cola. A good marketing strategy made that it was well distributed in almost all schools in Belgium. The reason was that it would be very healthy for them, because of the natural ingredients and of course the sugar. It would make them grow fast and strong. It would even be good for pregnant women and for women that were breastfeeding their baby&#
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    How the Belgians founded New York

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    In order to avoid any confusion in this story, it is important to know that in the sixteenth century, the Netherlands covered a part of northern France and Lorraine, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the present Netherlands. Its inhabitants were called the Belgians, and the maps represented the country in the shape of a lion: the "Leo Belgicus". Besides, numerous maps from the sixteenth century showed this territory under the name of Belgium. The latter failed into disuse for the benefit of the Netherlands and only reappeared in 1789 on the occasion of the first Belgian revolution. In 1831 Belgium became an independent country. Today Belgium is a lot smaller and is divided into two big regions mostly based on the language they speak in that particular region. In the north, there is Flanders where they speak Flemish (Dutch) and in the south, there is the Walloon part where they speak French. Almost in the center and between the two parts is the region of the capital B
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    25 things you probably didn’t know about Belgium

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    01 . Belgium has 178 “breweries” which produce more than 800 kinds of beer! 02 . Audrey Hepburn was born in the Ixelles, Evere district of Brussels. 03 . The place where the most quantity of original Belgian chocolate is sold is the International Airport of Brussels. 04 . The Body Mass Index (BMI) is one invention of Lambert Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian mathematician. 05 . Belgium has the lowest proportion of McDonald’s per inhabitant of the developed world. There were no Burger Kings till 2016. 06 . Belgium holds the world’s record for spending the longest period of time without government: 541 days separate Leterme’s resignation (2010) and the formation of Di Rupo’s government (2011). The people in Belgium didn't even notice and life went on as usual. 07 . Belgium produces more than 220.000 tons of chocolate per year. 08 . The oil Peinture was invented by the Belgian brother's Van Eyck. 09 . The modern asphalt for r
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