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TIL about neutral Moresnet, an formerly independent village-nation between Germany and Belgium that continued to exist until 1920. At it's height, it housed 3500 citizens and the largest zinc-mine of Europe. The flag colors came from a mining company and it's citizens were considered stateless

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