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• Germany is the world capital of penis enlargement, with roughly 8 in 100,000 adult German males opting for the procedure. 

Out of an estimated 15,414 enlargements worldwide, 2,786 operations took place in the land of the 2014 FIFA World Cup champions, Germany. This accounts for 18 percent of all penis enlargements in the world, which is much more than any other nation. While this figure seems like a large amount, this translates to roughly eight out of every 100,000 adult males who reside in the country. In comparison, Venezuela, second runner-up, has four out of every 100,000 adults in the country undergoing the intimate nip-tuck, not coming anywhere close to the German rate.

• Because of the Chernobyl disaster, radioactive wild boars are currently roaming around Germany.

Wild boars still roam the forests of Germany, where they are hunted for their meat, which is sold as a delicacy.
But in recent tests by the state government of Saxony, more than one in three boars were found to give off such high levels of radiation that they are unfit for human consumption.
Outside the hunting community, wild boar are seen as a menace by much of Germany society. Autobahns have to be closed when boar wander onto them, they sometimes enter towns and, in a famous case in 2010, a pack attacked a man in a wheelchair in Berlin.

• Many nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to collect residents with dementia who try to leave.

Old people's homes across Germany are erecting fake bus-stops to make it easier to round up senile pensioners trying to make a run for it, and also to help soothe patients who feel they have things to do, places to be.

• Americans spend more money on pets yearly than Germany spends on its entire defense budget.

Americans spent a record $55.7 billion on their pets last year, an industry trade group said Thursday, a figure that could increase to a whopping $60 billion this year. The amount Americans shelled out for puppy chow, cat litter, toys, grooming and all matter of indulgences last year is equivalent to the gross domestic product of Croatia, and $10 billion more than Germany’s entire defense budget.

• In Germany, there's a specific word for analyzing and learning to live with the past, in particular the Holocaust: "Vergangenheitsbewaltigung."

Vergangenheitsbewältigung is a composite German word with individual and collective significance that describes processes of coming to terms with the past (Vergangenheit "past"; Bewältigung "overcome [the negative, repressed and incriminating, mental injuries and guilt]"), which is perhaps best rendered in English as "struggle to overcome the [negatives of the] past".[1] It is a key term in the study of post-1945 German literature and culture.

• David Bowie performed at the Berlin Wall in 1987 while East Germans gathered to listen behind. You could hear them cheering and singing along from the other side.

Germanophile popstar David Bowie had close ties with Berlin, having lived in the city for three years during the 1970s. On 7 June 1987, shortly before Ronald Reagan’s visit, he came back for a concert in West Berlin right next to the Reichstag building, only a stone’s throw away from the wall. “We send our wishes to all our friends who are on the other side of the wall,” he said in German at around 10 pm, before launching into Heroes, a song he had written in the capital. East Germans who had gathered to listen to the concert on the other side of the wall, the theory goes, were emboldened by the song to stand up to the authorities. Soon thousands of them were chanting “The wall must go!” and “Gorbachev! Gorbachev!”: rock and roll had set the stone rolling that would smash the wall. “The Wall has only another two years to go,” author Tobias Rüther has written about the Bowie concert. “That June in East Berlin, a few of the heroes emerged who would shortly bring it down. They have a David Bowie song on their lips.”

• 1% of Germany's population is genetically immune to HIV

• East and West Germany still look different from space because of the different types of streetlamps used.

• Germany and Japan have the lowest birth rate in the world.

Germany has dropped below Japan to have not just the lowest birth rate across Europe but also globally, according to the report by Germany-based analysts. Its authors warned of the effects of a shrinking working-age population. They said women's participation in the workforce would be key to the country's economic future. In Germany, an average of 8.2 children were born per 1,000 inhabitants over the past five years, according to the study by German auditing firm BDO with the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI). It said Japan saw 8.4 children born per 1,000 inhabitants over the same time period.

• When Germany won the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, it was the first time as a united country. The three previous times, the soccer World Cup was won by West Germany.

• You can't name your child "Matti" in Germany because it doesn't indicate gender.

In Germany, you must be able to tell the gender of the child by the first name, and the name chosen must not be negatively affect the well being of the child. Also, you can not use last names or the names of objects or products as first names. Whether or not your chosen name will be accepted is up to the office of vital statistics, the Standesamt, in the area in which the child was born. If the office rejects your proposed baby name, you may appeal the decision. But if you lose, you'll have to think of a different name. Each time you submit a name you pay a fee, so it can get costly

• Germany's debt from WW1 was equivalent to 96,000 tons of gold.

On Oct. 3, 2010, Germany finally paid off all its debt from World War One. The total? About 269 billion marks, or around 96,000 tons of gold. The reparations were part of many humiliating clauses imposed by the Treaty of Versailles following Germany’s defeat in 1918, mainly by France, which suffered so much during the war and was also fearful that without the weight of such repayments, Germany would rise again quickly as a military power and attack it.

• The Berlin Wall was torn down by mistakenly-empowered citizens after an East German spokesman misspoke at a press conference and mentioned immediate border crossing privileges for every citizen.

• Nearly a third of Germany is powered by Renewable Energy.

Germany is now producing 28.5 percent of its energy—nearly a third—with solar, wind, hydro, and biomass. In 2000, renewables accounted for just 6 percent of its power consumption. This is further proof that Germany is, essentially, the world leader in renewable energy. No other country has demonstrated such a dedicated, accelerated drive toward transitioning to clean power—in Germany's case, away from nuclear to solar and wind. It has done so by intensely incentivizing private and commercial solar, aggressively pursuing wind power contracts, and, yes, by raising, slightly, the cost of energy in the process

• Declawing cats is legal in most U.S. states but banned in at least 22 countries including Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

• Performing the Nazi salute in Germany is a criminal offence punishable by up to 3 years in prison.

Today in Germany, Nazi salutes in written form, vocally, and even straight-extending the right arm as a saluting gesture (with or without the phrase), are illegal. It is a criminal offence punishable by up to three years of prison (Strafgesetzbuch section 86a). Usage for art, teaching and science is allowed unless "the existence of an insult results from the form of the utterance or the circumstances under which it occurred". Use of the salute has also been illegal in Austria since the end of World War II.

• Germany, Denmark, Iceland and other countries have official rules about what a baby can be named.

• There's a building project in Berlin, Germany, where they want to build a Christian church, a mosque and a synagogue all in one.

• German soccer player Mesut Ozil donated his €300,000 World Cup victory bonus to pay surgeries for 23 children in Brazil.

• During WW1, the King of England, the Tsar of Russia, and the Emperor of Germany were all first cousins

• Dachau, the first NAZI concentration camp in Germany, opened six years before WWII.

Dachau concentration camp was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners. It is located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory northeast of the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (10 mi) northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany.[3] Opened in 1933 by Heinrich Himmler, its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually, the imprisonment of Jews, ordinary German and Austrian criminals, and eventually foreign nationals from countries that Germany occupied or invaded. The Dachau camp system grew to include nearly 100 sub-camps, which were mostly work camps or "Arbeitskommandos," and were located throughout southern Germany and Austria.[4] The camps were liberated by U.S. forces on 29 April 1945

• In 1960, two of The Beatles got deported from Germany for lighting a condom on fire.

In Hamburg, Germany, the band spent most of 1960 living behind the screen of a cinema called Bambi Kino. Paul McCartney described the situation: "We lived backstage in the Bambi Kino, next to the toilets, and you could always smell them." Apparently the band was forced to use the urinals for bathing and shaving water. Eventually, George Harrison got kicked out of the country for being underage. The Beatles then made plans to leave the Bambi Kino, but before McCartney and then-drummer Pete Best left, they lit a condom on fire in the room which angered the owner and got them arrested. McCartney and Best were deported. Later, The Beatles returned to Hamburg and on December 25, 1962, the band ate a horse for Christmas dinner.

• Chinese checkers was invented in Germany.

Chinese checkers (alternative spelling Chinese chequers) is a board game that can be played by two to six people. It is a variant of Halma; the objective of the game is to place one's pieces in the corner opposite their starting position of a pitted hexagram by single moves or jumps over other pieces.
Despite being called “Chinese Checkers”, the game did not originate in China or any part of Asia, nor is it a variation of checkers. (The less well-known game "Chinese chess", or xiangqi, is.) The game was invented in Germany in 1892 under the name “Stern-Halma”, as a variation on the older American

• Fanta originated in Germany as a result of difficulties importing Coca-Cola syrup into Nazi Germany during WW2.

• In 1917, Germany invited Mexico to join WW1 by attacking the U.S. in order to recover the lost territories of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

• Some 5,500 WW2 bombs are discovered in Germany every year and defused, an average of 15 per day.

Nearly 70 years have passed since the last shot was fired marking the end of World War II. But to look at headlines that emerged out of Germany this week, it may comes as a surprise that there are still bombs left behind from the conflict still waiting to go off.
Earlier this week, a 550-pound American-made bomb dating back to World War II was intentionally detonated in a controlled burst after its discovery by construction workers in the city of Oranienburg.

• Germany made its final reparations payment from the WW1 Treaty of Versailles in 2010.

• 2 million German women aged 13-70 were allegedly raped by the Red Army on WW2.

As Allied troops entered and occupied German territory during the later stages of World War II, mass rapes took place both in connection with combat operations and during the subsequent occupation. Most Western scholars agree that the majority of the rapes were committed by Soviet servicemen, while some Russian historians maintain that these crimes were not widespread. The wartime rapes had been surrounded by decades of silence. According to Antony Beevor, whose books were banned in 2015 from some Russian schools and colleges, NKVD files have revealed that the Soviet leadership knew what was happening, including about the rape of Soviet women liberated from labour camps, but did nothing to stop it. Some Russian historians disagree, claiming that the Soviet leadership took swift action.

• 60% of YouTube's 1,000 most popular videos are blocked in Germany.

• In 2014, Germany officially abolished college tuition fees, even for international students.

• Hamburgers got their name from Hamburg, Germany.

A hamburger (also called a beef burger, hamburger sandwich, burger, hamburg or cheeseburger when served with a slice of cheese) is a sandwich consisting of one or more cooked patties of ground meat, usually beef, placed inside a sliced bread roll or bun. Hamburgers may be cooked in a variety of ways, including pan-frying, barbecuing, and flame-broiling. Hamburgers are often served with cheese, lettuce, tomato, bacon, onion, pickles, and condiments such as mustard, mayonnaise, ketchup, relish, and chiles. The term "burger" can also be applied to the meat patty on its own, especially in the UK where the term "patty" is rarely used. The term may be prefixed with the type of meat or meat substitute used, as in "turkey burger", "bison burger", or "veggie burger". Hamburgers are sold at fast-food restaurants, diners, and specialty and high-end restaurants (where burgers may sell for several times the cost of a fast-food burger). There are many international and regional variations of the hamburger.

• The population of Germany is in decline. It has fallen by 2 million in the last decade.

• From 1989 to 2009, about 2,000 schools were closed in Germany because of a scarcity of children.

• In Germany, it is illegal to run out of fuel on highways.

• After World War I, there were so few men in Germany that only 1 in 3 women would find a husband.

• The first magazine ever seen was launched in 1663 in Germany.

• Nazi Joseph Goebbels' wife's descendants are Germany's richest family nowadays.

• 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.

• Holocaust denial is either implicitly or explicitly a crime in 17 countries, including Germany and Austria.

• Berlin is 9 times bigger than Paris and has more bridges than Venice.

• The cities of Aachen, Regensburg, Frankfurt-am-Main, Nuremberg, Weimar, Bonn and Berlin have all been capitals of Germany.

• With 85 million people Germany has the largest population in the European Union.

Let's take a look before on Germany as a country after reading these mind blowing facts :

• Population: 85 million people live in Germany. The big majority of the people live in cities and towns. 
•  Capital: Berlin with 4 million inhabitants is not only Germany's capital city but also the biggest city. 
•  Name: Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany), Nickname: 'Land der Dichter und Denker' Government: Democracy, Republic 
•  Language: German Literacy: More than 99% can read and write. 
• Religion: mainly Christians (Protestants 34%, Roman Catholics 34%) 
• Currency: 1 Euro=100 cents, before 2001 German Mark/Deutsche Mark (DM) 
• Flag colors: black, red and gold