Interesting facts about Germany

1. Mp3 was invented in Germany
2. The German word for 'poison' is Gift.
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"Mist" in German means manure

Really?? Then they sure do not know how to make money out of it!

5) Germany is spelt G-E-R-M-A-N-Y
6) The people here are called Germans
7) Main language is German

Average number of days a German goes without washing his underwear: 7

The Fraunhofer makes money by licensing encoder and decoder implementations. I think they do fairly well from it. Companies that make mp3 players for example have to pay royalties.

Most interesting fact is how new Germany is. Depending what you count, its only really been around since 1871. New Zealand is older!

Second most interesting fact is that a lot of western europe are in fact ethnically and culturally descended from germans. England for example, was mostly created by german settlers in the dark ages. Their royaly family now is german. Most english speakers in the world today have german ancestors. English was originally a german dialect. We are all germans really.

app. 4 mio people living in Germany are illiterate, meaning app. 6 % of the population 15 and over

Germany has had three empires (Reich)...

The first empire, was the Holy Roman Empire... which was described famously as neither being Holy, Roman or an Empire.

The second was put together under Otto von Bismark.. and lasted from 1871-1918. It ended when Germany lost world war one, the Kaiser went on holiday and Germany became a Republic.

The third empire was created by the Nazi's and was supposed to last for a thousand years (at least)... They managed to go from 1933–1945, slightly under their ambitous target.

The fourth empire is still in the early planning stages.

Hitler famously said in 1933 "Give me 12 years and you will not recognize Germany!" He was so right.

Didn't keydeck have a post a while back 65 or 56 things I know about Germany that was funny...*now where is that post*

Germany as we know it was "founded" (for lack of a better word) in 1848, not 1871. It didn't hold well but that's what's generally acknowledged as the start of modern Germany. The year 1871 was the beginning of the Second Reich under Kaiser Wilhelm which brought Prussia, Bavaria and the other states together in a lasting union.

Oh, and the German word for "warm" is "warm" and the word for "man" is "Man" but the word for "woman" is "Frau". The language can be very trick like this.

woof.

that's not correct, BadDoggie, modern Germany was founded in 1871
there was briefly a national assembly in 1848, but it didn't last

It is open for academic debate, like a lot of things in history. The reasons WHY someone might pick one date over another are more important than the date itself. Someone could choose 1990 or 1945, if they were prepared to defend that choice of date. But im looking forward to BadDoggies reply, im fascinated by history, especially german/ european history.

Please see this, this and this. I'd point you to some of the stuff I had to write about it for my degree but it's not on-line.

woof.

More than 60 million Americans are partly of German heritage ( thats around 20 % of the population)

In Germany u can choose among 300 types of breads and around 1200 types of biscuits and cakes.