10+ Incredible Facts About Germany - Part 2

Here are some Incredible Facts About Germany - Part 2

Welcome to the world of the Germany! A beautiful country filled with great art and culture, and a people who have worked hard to strive to change the way the world looks at them. And here on FTD Facts we'eve explored the country in the past but are continuing today to learn what is even more fascinating about this great amazing country.

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[louisafflerbach]

Where was the fact that germany destroyed Brazil in World Cup 2014

[Anthyrion]

Germany is such a great country. It's a shame that most of the nations only remembers the really dark times when the Nazis ruled our country :(

[TheBumbleCheese]

2:51 Wie fahren die über die Autobahn? :O

[jenniferk]

Lots of love to Germany from India 🇩🇪😘😘😘I am going to visit Germany next year once again😁😁✌✌

[derechteduitslandball]

2:50 Its forbidden to drive on the Standstreifen (the right lane where you have to stop if you have an accident) Who filmed this. Its very dangerous to drive there, especially when theres an intersection

[joeleichhorn]

I'm from Germany and I want say thank you for this wonderfull Video. :)

[gregoryfortner]

Actually, you say Ein beer for one beer. Un is French.

[larrylarryson]

Fun faxt by the way: In Germany you can drink Beer at the age of 16.

[ButiLao]

I'm German and spending a year abroad right now and daNG I MISS MY GERMAN BREAD SO MUCH D:

[derpherbert]

Here are some facts about Germany from a german:
- Our cars are of a certain efficiency standard because gas costs about 1.50€ per liter (1 gallon=3.5Liters, 1€=1.25$). Also, to drive on german streets your car needs to go through a detailed service list called "TÜV" every 2-3 years. You'll rarely find broken/trashed cars going fast on the autobahn is my point.
-If you wanna be a "progressive German", you don't drive your car to work, you do that by bike. 5-15km drive to work? Great, I won't need the gym after. Seriously though, if you're from the US or Canada, you won't quite know what it means to not buy gas for 1-3 months.
- Germany's technological prowess is built on a federal system of established norms I first got introduced to in 1st grade. The DIN (Deutsche Industrie Norm = german industry standards) regulates everything from the thickness of the layer of stones beneath express train tracks all the way to the shape, size and legal ingredients for my schoolbooks. If there was one thing I think the rest of the world should take from us, it's a federal industry standard for everything that needs one.
- In Germany, the outer walls of ANY populated building (excluding your garden shed) have to be walled with stone bricks, just wood is NOT enough. Also, there's a regulation proclaiming a wall has to be at least foot wide. We don't have hundreds of houses blown down every year, even though we have annual storms of 70+mph. Maybe some roof tiles come loose, but that's generally it. Florida, you might wanna take notes.
-I just realized this: In Germany, the woman suing McD for not telling her the coffee was hot would not have had a case, because we have a clearly defined process a product needs to go through before it can get released to the public. If during that testing phase there's a red flag, the release date has to be pushed further back until that problem is dealt with, until there are no more problems. Unless the person working at McD was intentionally pouring hot coffee on the customer, there is no scenario she could demand money from the company. There's just no designed legal way to ask for tons of money for discovering a flaw.
In America, the process is the other way round: There are fewer hurdles to getting your product on the market but if someone detects a flaw in your design, they're eligible for a lot of money. Needless to say, we think of our concept as better and this was the main resistance against TTIP, you might remember that.
-You're heavily relying on german stereotypes. Oktoberfest and all that, I've heard it so many times I'll let it slide. But Pumpernickel is a very acquired taste maybe 25% of germans fancy. But 90% will eat a loaf of bread a week and "Brötchen" for breakfast. True stereotypes would be: Our infrastructure is best, and yet it's never finished. We love our forests. Best Cars. Best Castles. Best philosophers, natural philosophers and scientists of any country on earth.
-Last but not least: The term of politically "Left" and "Right" was established in Frankfurt, the City I'm from! In 1848 the first democratically elected parliament of Germany held session there, seating Communist workers to the left of the room, the military nationalists on the right. That's how the terms came to be! Years before that, they crowned the German Emperors in Frankfurt.

Lastly a joke:
A Frenchman, a German and a Brit live together in the house of Europe.
Whats Heaven like? Well, a Frenchman is cook, the Brit does comedy and the German built the house.
Whats Hell? The Brit is the cook, the German does comedy and the Frenchman built a house.


Hope this was informing and not too long...

[MenschUnterwegs]

In Northern Germany, we have completely different traditions and a different mentality than in southern Germany.

[judiepie]

Love from Ireland!!
Ich leibe Deutschland!

[rashomon]

in fact, "Pumpernickel" ist one of the least popular breads in germany...

[wadwad]

Did you know that the Hotdog and the Burger is also from Germany?!

[SafdarAliShah_TimeTraveler]

Germany was and is my Favorite Love From Pakistan... Respect to all

[Little_to_none]

I love Germany so much. Lovely country, lovely people. Hope one day i can visit there.

[oksanaivanova]

Every single time I go to Germany, I live mostly of bread and beer, because those are so damn good<3 Amazing country to visit!

[michaelgourvitch]

We Germans love football/Soccer (germans call it Fussball) and we are really proud of our National Football team

[fabian]

Ähem, the "Wiener Schnitzel" you mentioned and showed in the video is actually from Austria. More specifically, from Wien (Vienna) as the name suggests.

[manyIce]

Hey, what about the TV tower in Berlin? It stands to 368 meters. The ugly bank towerette in Frankfurt just reaches 300m by using just some empty concrete to emulate hight.