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101 Facts about Germany: History - Culture - Nature - Curiosities
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Series: 101 Facts about Countries, Book 8
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ISBN13: 9798194692491
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 24 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 24 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A country everyone thinks they already know.
Cars, punctuality, order - two of those three claims do not survive inspection. The long-distance trains of Deutsche Bahn hit an annual punctuality rate of 60.1 percent in 2025. About 70 percent of the autobahn network carries no speed limit, and most drivers stay below 130 kilometers per hour anyway. Forest covers a third of the country and now gives off more carbon than it stores. And the drink Germans consume most is coffee, not beer. 101 facts. Each on a page of its own. Open it anywhere, in any order. Sorted into six chapters:
Cars, punctuality, order - two of those three claims do not survive inspection. The long-distance trains of Deutsche Bahn hit an annual punctuality rate of 60.1 percent in 2025. About 70 percent of the autobahn network carries no speed limit, and most drivers stay below 130 kilometers per hour anyway. Forest covers a third of the country and now gives off more carbon than it stores. And the drink Germans consume most is coffee, not beer. 101 facts. Each on a page of its own. Open it anywhere, in any order. Sorted into six chapters:
- Geography & Nature - the waterfall with no road, the lake with no border, the sea that leaves twice a day
- History & Archaeology - the oldest figures on earth, an empire with no capital, a note that opened the Wall
- People, Language & Cities - seven protected languages, a country with no metropolis, 600,000 clubs
- Inventions & Science - Röntgen without a patent, Meitner without a Nobel Prize, a computer in a living room
- Food, Beer & Bread - 3,000 breads, 1,415 breweries, a purity law with no yeast
- Economy, Records & Everyday Life - 70 percent with no speed limit, 98 percent of bottles returned, 130 orchestras
The twelve years that overshadow everything are in here. Set down plainly, with verified numbers, across seven entries - and not as the only content of a country with two thousand years of history. Checked, not copied. Every figure was tested against an accessible source before it was written. Where sources disagree, the range stands. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement stands. And Germany's first junction-free express road was opened by Konrad Adenauer in August 1932 - six months later the new regime downgraded it to an ordinary highway. With a fact file, timeline, glossary, and index for looking things up. Useless knowledge can be many things. Wrong should not be one of them.
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