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What is one relatively unknown thing that your country does much better than elsewhere, but that most people don't know about? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Billiard balls and playing cards. Belgium is world leader in both.

Edit: forgot to add pigeons. Belgian competition pigeons are the most expensive in the world.

Edit 2: Belfries. Clock-O-Matic is a Belgian company and world leader in the automation of Belfries. It's not that hard because most Belfries are located in Belgium and France, if not all of them.

Edit 3: It never ends. Roller coaster wheels. Let that sink in. No their country produces more roller coaster wheels nor is as good as we arr at it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Man, it feels weird to think of USPCC as a Cartamundi subsidiary, but I guess you're right — since 2019 (had to look that up) Belgium really has been the playing-card hub of the world! (A little American patriotism just died in me...)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

USPCC only makes for a fourth of Cartamundi's revenue. And to make it even more Belgian, Cartamundi is still run by the same two families that founded the company 6 generations ago Each family owns 50% of the shares.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn. This actually makes me want to live in Belgium. If not for the billiards,then for the church bells. If not for those, then for the competitive pigeons... Then the cards. (In that order)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

slaps on the pigeon shed

Fastest pigeons in the world baby.

But seriously. 1.252.000 euro for a pigeon

https://www.pipa.be/en/articles/update-armando-sold-1252000-euro-total-revenue-joel-verschoot-auction-2400000-euro-19439