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[–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Wow, I knew the border wasn't a straight line, but I didn't realize quite how fractal it was. It's like they interviewed each household and decided on a case-by-case basis who was Belgian and who was Dutch.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    If you look closely it's not even house by house. Much of it is just random fields or parts of fields. Maybe houses stood there decades or centuries earlier when the borders were drawn up, IDK

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