netherlands Archives - reddit

Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time.

Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.

1 Comment

TIL Holland is a region within the Netherlands, and in 2020 the Netherlands officially dropped its support of the word Holland for the whole country, which included a logo redesign that changed ‘Holland’ to ‘NL.’

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 3:28 pm

2 Points
Upvote Downvote
The Netherlands should change their flag so it includes orange

by CopyPastaArchive September 4, 2022, 7:32 am

3 Points
Upvote Downvote
2 Comments

TIL the earliest existing record of a telescope was a 1608 patent submitted to the government in the Netherlands by Middelburg spectacle maker Hans Lipperhey. The actual inventor is unknown but word of it spread through Europe. Galileo heard about it and, in 1609, built his own version.

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 3:05 am

7 Points
Upvote Downvote
1 Comment

My husband hates The Netherlands

by CopyPastaArchive August 14, 2022, 1:42 pm

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
2 Comments

TIL that cannabis is actually not technically legal in The Netherlands. A “gedoogbeleid” (tolerance policy) is used such that cannabis coffeeshops are not prosecuted if they follow certain rules, but are still against the law.

by whatilearned August 14, 2022, 11:34 am

11 Points
Upvote Downvote
Why did the Habsburgs neglect the Austrian Netherlands?

by HistoryBuff August 10, 2022, 10:23 am

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
3 Comments

TIL that The Netherlands doesn’t use sand for their trains, but a mixture called Sandite, it’s a gel consisting of sand, anti-freeze, and steel shot. Often dispensed by the first passenger trains of the day to combat leaf slipperyness.

by whatilearned July 24, 2022, 9:50 am

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
4 Comments

TIL The Netherlands gives Canada 20,000 tulips every year as a thank you for protecting the Dutch royal family in ww2. In gratitude for helping liberate the Netherlands during World War II in 1945, Princess Juliana presented 100,000 tulip bulbs to Canada.

by whatilearned July 14, 2022, 11:48 am

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
1 Comment

TIL Apple simply chose to pay a $5.5 million fine every week for months in the Netherlands instead of obey orders from the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) to allow third-party payment systems in Dutch dating apps.

by whatilearned July 7, 2022, 12:45 pm

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
2 Comments

TIL the US has a population density of only 34 people per square kilometer. By comparison the Netherlands has a density of 457 per km and Bangladesh is at 1087 per km. If the US had the same density as Bangladesh there would be a staggering 10.5 Billion Americans.

by whatilearned June 28, 2022, 1:42 pm

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
23 Comments

Non-Dutch people, what would you like to know about The Netherlands?

by QuestionGuy June 19, 2022, 2:30 pm

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
1 Comment

TIL that from 1968 to the early 1990s, the BVD (intelligency agency of the Netherlands) created the “Marxist–Leninist Party of the Netherlands”, a a fake pro-China communist party in set up to develop contacts with the Chinese government for espionage purposes. The fake party even had newspapers.

by whatilearned June 18, 2022, 2:32 am

12 Points
Upvote Downvote

Congratulations. You've reached the end of the internet.