10 Things That You Didn't Know About Belgium #shorts

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From their school beers, chocolate factories, longest trams, to their government systems, here are ten things that you probably didn't know about Belgium.

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Blocking out part of the statue Manneken Pis is such an American thing…. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Overwijn

Fun fact: Belgium has more Luxembourg then Luxembourg

ilgazozden

Little known fact the Saxophon was invented in Belgium und later patented in France

Adronyth

I went to Belgium in 2015 to watch the 200-year anniversary reenactment of the Battle of Waterloo. Absolutely incredible.

matt

Currently, in Denmark it is somewhat common to let kids drink a beer with 1-2% alcohol in the Christmas season.

missa

As a Belgian I'm happy to see that people have some interest in our culture and history. We're a small country but we had a role in big events in history

kaiserinmargot

We also have monasteries where monks dedicate their lives to making beer.

gutbuster

I´m from Belgium and I think it´s kind of sad you chose these 10 things, while you could have easely mentioned a lot of better things to say. For example, our national symbol is NOT manneke pis. This is a mascotte from Brussel, our capitol city, and it was used to mock the authorities. We do however, have the atomium, our national monument since expo 58.

Throughout history, Belgium used to be suppressed by the French and the Netherlands. The people from our county suffered a lot under their regime. We went independent since 1831, which is not even that long ago if you think about it. The citizens where mostly very brave farmers that fought for their freedom.

Our national dish is fries with beefstew. We are also known for the best chocolate in the world, and we brew the best beers. The Brusselse wafel is also very popular.

Beer is not served in our schools. A few schools did this, all before the 1970s. This was ´table beer´ which is a very light beer (low % alcohol). They got 1 glass and back than, it was considered healthy. Kids never got drunk from this. Also, this happend in some schools, def not everywhere. This is probably because we use these beers to make our national beefstew.

I hope this clears things up a bit. We have a very interesting country, sad you only checked one shitty site to chose your ´10 things´ to explain an entire country..

Lauren-yrki

Fun fact: Belgium was the inventor of the style of music called new beat that later formed into electronic music. It did so whit the titles “the sound of C” and “Pump up the jam”.

KiewieGames

The beer is generally named ‘tafelbier’ or tablebeer and are often used in stews :)

callmemich

You neglected to mention their world-famous delicious waffles.

The_DC_Kid

I love Belgium and the Belgians (I’m Italian) ❤️ 🇧🇪

A_Mauri

the peeing boy is a statue that goes back to the 13th-14th century. the story is that enemies set dynamite to blow up the city of Brussels and the little boy saw them and peed on the explosives and saved the city. The other story is that a man lost his son in the city, and was so upset that he had everybody in the city looking for his child. the child was eventually found peeing in someone's garden. The father was so grateful to fins his son that he commissioned the statue and gifted it to the city to show his thanks and gratitude.

anastasia

My dad told me he was excited to get to the third grade because they started giving kids beer at that age.

andrewpalim

I did not know ANY of these interesting facts… and I’ve been there! Must go back… the tram looks a super experience. Thanks for sharing.

johannebaker