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.
