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[danielkaufmann]

NO... THIS STREET IS NOT MADE to show the summit and driving back than. This street is made to gain hight, therfore the street is made like a serpentine.
We Germans don't build streets for fun.

[DJDoena]

Ryan think about this way: When I arrive at the end of a traffic jam, I don't know the reason why the jam is there and if emergency vehicles are approaching. So we create the lane "just in case" because creating it while you're still slowly moving is much easier than we you're trying it while standing still and being blocked in by the car in back and front.

[PaulWinkle]

Japanese Oracles predicted the reunification 10 years before it happened. This makes the story even more interesting.

[t.a.k.palfrey]

The British equivalent to the German light bulb joke is: " How many Brits does it take to change a light bulb? Only one. He stands on a chair and holds the bulb still while the world revolves around him." 😅

[einwildesrehchen]

So I looked the thing up with the cherry trees: Bonn decided they wanted to plant cherry trees and Japan sponsored them.
Bit there are actually cherry tress g in Berlin that Japan gifted to Germany as celebration of the reunification.

[snorkyfin]

It's funny to see that the "Breite Straße" with the cherry blossoms used to be just a nice street in Bonn but one day a travel guide listed it as something special and now it's crowded with tourists each year.

[mathiasbrandt]

Nice to see the cherry blossoms in Bonn. I lived in that street for five years with my girlfriend when i studied. When the blossoms start to fall down from the trees for several days it feels like pink snow comes down outside of your window.

[Attirbful]

I thought you were going to say “this is going to make puking more comfortable” but you said “enjoyable”… Almost spat out my coffee…! LOL

[gamingtonight]

Britain gets a huge Xmas tree from Noway every year, which gets decorated by them, and is put up in central London, Norway gifts this tree as a thank-you for helping them in WWII!

[uncipaws]

2:37 that is part of the B31 road from Freiburg into the black forest and the rock is Kreuzfelsen, the reason for this hairpin curve is just to gain elevation in the narrow valley.

[beepinger]

That Cherry Blossoms... Gifted from Japan after the reunification, planted in 1980... Germanys reunification was 1990, so something is not right there... But that street exists only the facts on that picture are wrong.

[eckeb.]

The half timbered construction method you are talking about is "Fachwerk". Means building a solid wooden frame and then fill the inside with bricks.

[hera]

Cherrytrees in Essen (Rüttenscheider Straße) were donated by a Japanese businessman called Nakamura. He lived in Essen after WW2 and even when he relocated to Japan he stayed in touch with his german "home town". I think he donated the trees, when the Rüttenscheider Straße was reconstructed in the 80s.

[CatzHoek]

what do you mean you don't know what the point of the road is? It's a switchback in the mountains to gain elevation while maintaining a reasonably small inclination.

[hughjazz]

The coat of arms image, our Bundesadler, from r/place was a collab between us and the Belgians, which makes it even cooler.

[Jess-bszl]

I was actually at the Eltz Castle at 3:34 just last month with some family. We had a tour and everything. It's actually a pretty cool castle. It has two parking lots, one a bit farther away, from which you can hike to the castle, and the slightly nearer one where a shuttle bus takes you to the castle. We obviously took the hiking one. I'd say, if you're in the area, it's definitely worth seeing.

[AdamMPick]

The cherry blossom thing smells very much like AI dreaming stuff up. Just enough truth to it to make it believable.

The real story is that when in 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, the Japanese company TV Asahi Group did gather money in Japan to gift japanese cherry trees to Germany. They have planted around 10k trees in Berlin and around it.
Cherry trees were popular before in Germany, those trees in Bonn are Japanese cherry trees, but those were not gifted.

There was a similar story at the start of the 20th century between Japan and the US. They planted 3k trees in and around Washington DC.
The US responded with sending some dogwood trees.

[AlBfR]

Now that there are condom vending machines on women’s toilets they should also install puke sinks in women’s bathrooms, too. 😉

11:18 About 10 years ago often there was no emergency lane build buy the cars. But then blocking the emergency lane became punishable with a massive fine by law and we had a massive campaign with ads hanging at every overpass to show how to do it and PSAs at every traffic announcement in radio to build an emergency lane in case of blocked traffic on the autobahn. So this picture is either new or if it‘s old it‘s rare.

[fxseove]

Morning Ryan and have a nice day And this is not a joke 😂

[spaspieler]

108k subscribers - I guess about 90% German.