Heidi Klum – nicer to look at than Albert Einstein
Fun Fact…
Sugar-filled, rocket fuel for children, Fanta was created in Nazi Germany when the local Coca Cola factories couldn’t access the ingredients to make Coke. Doesn’t make you want to run to the beach with your beautiful friends now, does it?
Wikipedia ‘Fact’…
Johannes Gutenburg changed the course of history with the invention of his famous printing press. His mass printing of the Bible initially brought him to the public’s attention, but it was his widely popular publication of Mills and Boon novels that made him his fortune.
National Hero…
The Germans have been pioneers in several disciplines; scientific, commercial and cultural. Albert Einstein was born in Germany and has made an immense contribution to mankind’s understanding of the universe. He had a complicated relationship with the nation of his birth. He renounced his German citizenship in 1989 upon hearing that David Hasselhoff had achieved his second number 1 single in the German charts.
Football Pedigree…
About as good as it’s possible to get. They’ve won three World Cups and three European Championships, but perhaps their most amazing achievement is to be never written off despite at times not being very good. For all their success and the great players the country has produced, it’s their infamous defeat at the hands of England in the 1966 World Cup that is arguably their most famous moment. With the game tied at 2-2 in extra-time, Geoff Hurst had a shot that hit the crossbar and bounced down behind the line. According to a visually impaired linesman. The incident has been the source of much tedious argument between the two countries that the rest of the world has largely stopped giving a crap about.
Acceptable National Stereotype…
Polite, intelligent, efficient with a wrongly maligned sense of humour.
Unacceptable National Stereotype…
Humourless, goose-stepping control freaks.
Don’t be surprised if they…
Don’t impress you all the way to lifting the trophy.
