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Discover the mind-boggling size of Texas compared to European countries like Germany and France.

Ratcatchers Day You’d think that this holiday is to celebrate exterminators. Well, you are half right. It is actually to commemorate the Pied Piper of Hamelin (Germany), who was one of the most infamous Ratcatchers. He had magic music on his pipe/flute that would lure rats out of the city. When the town didn’t pay him, he used the magic to lure the children out of the city, never to return. What i

While it has been long assumed that the more time you spend in a rural setting the better your mental health, a new study has shed light on why this is. A team of scientists based in Germany scanned the brains of 32 volunteers from rural and urban areas while they tried to complete puzzles with time limits.

Maybe we should work on exporting some knock-knock jokes. The US has been named the funniest country in a Badoo.com survey of 30,000 people from 15 nations around the globe, while Germany - long known for its poor sense of humor - kept up the stereotype by finishing at the bottom.

Imagine taking a lovely stroll through the park when, all of a sudden, you realize you've accidentally made your way onto the grounds of a women's prison. Such is the tale of an unfortunate 24-year-old man in Germany, who told police that he was already locked within the prison's confines before he knew what was happening.

After her parents nipped her horse-owning dreams in the bud, German-based Regina Mayer didn't give up. Instead of begging and pleading as most young ones do, she decided to take matters into her own hand by training Luna, one of the family's cows. Mayer spent hours with the brown-and-white cow, teaching it how to run, jump hurdles and respond to commands like "go," "stand" and

Jens Lehman and Tim Wiese are two of the better soccer goalkeepers in the world, having both represented Germany in international competition. Now, Lehman is suing Wiese for telling a newspaper reporter that Lehmann should "go to the 'Muppet Show'" and be treated "on a couch." And it wasn't as if Wiese's barbs were without provocation: They were actually in direct response to c

Nearly a quarter of a century ago, a young German boy named Frank Uesbeck wrote a message, stuffed it into a bottle and threw it out to sea. This year, he finally received a reply. The bottle was discovered by 13-year-old Daniil Korotkikh, a Russian boy who was walking along the beach with his parents when a glint in the sand caught his attention. There, he discovered a corked German beer bottle w