5. Currywurst Crazy
Speaking of interesting facts about Germany on the food front, they are also crazy for currywurst. What’s that, you ask? It’s a fast food concoction of sausages smothered in a curried ketchup sauce. It’s particularly popular in Berlin, where there’s even a museum to celebrate all things currywurst. It is said that 800 million of these saucy sausages are devoured each year in Germany. That’s a whopping 1,500 currywursts per minute!
6. Nature Nuts
Germany is one of the world’s most densely populated countries, yet almost a third of the land is covered in natural forests and wilderness. There are 98 official nature parks and 14 national parks there, the largest being the Black Forest. It’s a nature loving country, which is fitting considering the word “ecology” was coined there by biologist Ernst Haeckel back in 1866. Germans are also big on zoos. There are over 700 zoological gardens, bird parks, animal reserves and wildlife parks in the country. There are also over 400 registered zoos which makes it the nation with the most number of zoos in the world.
