- Germany is one of the world’s leading book nations – publishing around 94,000 titles every year.
- The first magazine ever seen was launched in 1663 in Germany.
- Germany was the first country in the world to adopt Daylight saving time – DST, also known as summer time. This occured in 1916, in the midst of WWI.
- Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein have German as the official language. German is the most widely taught third language across the world.
- Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft is the longest word to be published. It is 79 letters long.
- Smoking is banned in public places but drinking alcohol is still legal.
- Germany has (once) lost a penalty shootout in a major football competition. It was in 1976 when the then West Germany lost a shootout 5-3 in in the European Championships against Czechoslovakia. On the four other occasions the Germans have been involved in one, they won.
- The Chancellor’s office in Berlin is known locally as as the “washing machine”.
- In Germany there’s no punishment for a prisoner who tries to escape from jail, because it is a basic human instinct to be free.
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