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Antwerp

Antwerp
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About Antwerp

Antwerp is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third-largest municipality in Belgium by area at 208.22 km2 (80.39 sq mi). With a population of 565,039, it is the most populous municipality in Belgium, and with a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million people, the country's second-largest metropolitan area after Brussels.

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In 2013, a Belgian professor analyzed a copy of 50 Shades of Grey from a library in Antwerp. It tested positive for both cocaine and herpes.

from No Such Thing As A Barking Spy, 2017-08-11 at 00:15:12 · read transcript

Other times Antwerp came up

  1. London had the highest concentration of cocaine for one year, held the top spot 2015, and we've plummeted since then, dropped our cocaine use by a third. Done, and well done, you lot. Antwerp is riding very high. It's all Antwerp and Amsterdam, really, and that's for cocaine, MDMA, cannabis, Amsterdam, like much higher than anyone else for that. Italy, bizarrely, is at the bottom of the league for everything in Italian cities. They're not taking many drugs.

    396: No Such Thing As The Echidna Prince Charming, 2021-10-22 · listen

  2. Just going back to Niels Bohr, being a goalkeeper, he's once said that he let in an outrageously long shot due to being distracted by a mathematical problem. There's another nice thing in the 1920 Olympics and Antwerp in the final between Belgium and Czechslovakia. For the only time in football history, the competition couldn't be completed, because the Czechs walked off the pitch complaining of bias by the officials who are all English for sending one of their players off and intimidation by Belgian soldiers in the crowd, so that they just walked off and that was the end of it.

    17: No Such Thing As A Bassoon In A Football Stadium, 2014-07-11 · listen

  3. He thought that these two names were originally Dutch, and therefore Dutch was the language of the Garden of Eden, and therefore Dutch is the original word, and then everyone just kind of stole words from them. Wow, that is a desperate man. He has too much time on his hands. He also thought that Antwerp was founded by Noah's kids after the big flood. They decided to go to this place which is basically below sea level. Wow.

    No Such Thing As A Cannibal Squirrel, 2017-11-10 · listen

  4. Shazinski. You can email podcast at qi.com. Yep. Or you can go to our group account, which is at no such thing or our website. No such thing as a fish.com where we have all of our previous episodes. We have upcoming tour dates and we also have little bits of merchandise. Yeah, that's it. Thank you so much, Antwerp. That was amazing. We'll see you again. Goodbye.

    287: No Such Thing As Pets In Heaven, 2019-09-20 · listen

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