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A woman very into a male chimpanzee living at a zoo in Antwerp, Belgium has been banned from said zoo because officials think the cross-species relationship they got going is bad for the chimp, and will negatively affect his ability to socialize with his own kind. “I love that animal and he loves me,” Adie Timmermans reportedly said to regional […]
A 90-year-old Belgian has died after suffering simultaneous infections from two COVID-19 variants. Bloomberg reports the unvaccinated woman tested positive after admission to the OLV hospital in Aalst in March after she fell multiple times. Her oxygen levels were initially good, but her condition rapidly deteriorated and she died five days later. An autopsy has now revealed that […]
A Belgian farmer may have mistakenly altered European geography. According to the BBC, a local history buff noticed the subtle change during a recent walk around the Belgian-France border, where they realized a 200-year-old stone marker had been moved by about 7.5 feet. It’s believed that a farmer relocated the stone because it was in his tractor’s […]
A Hungarian lawmaker issued a statement Tuesday announcing his resignation as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) after he was busted over the weekend trying to escape a “sex party” during lockdown in Belgium, per The Daily Beast. Jozsef Szajer revealed in a blog post on his personal site that he submitted his resignation Sunday after officers broke up […]
A 9-year-old Belgian boy is about to receive a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. Laurent Simons is gearing up to graduate from the Eindhoven University of Technology in December and already has his eyes set on a Ph.D. In an interview with CNN, Laurent’s parents credited the boy’s grandparents with noting that the child could […]
VestiVille, a Belgian music festival, boasted an impressive lineup featuring some of the most exciting acts in the world. That was until it was unceremoniously canceled the very same day it was set to start. With the disaster that was Fyre Festival still fresh in people’s memory thanks to both Netflix and Hulu’s documentaries, VestiVille has […]
On Tuesday, Angels slugger Mike Trout made news by establishing a new MLB standard after signing a 12-year/$430 million contract. Also, some Belgian pigeon did the same for pigeon racing…though it didn’t generate quite as much buzz. That Belgian pigeon, named Armando, was purchased by a Chinese buyer who ponied up $1.4 million in a […]
Lauryn Hill might be the least punctual singer in the world. It’s absolutely no secret that Hill frequently shows up to her sets hours late, that is, if she shows up at all. But her French fans apparently didn’t know the deal, and things got heated after the legend arrived on stage two hours late and only […]
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