r/interestingasfuck • u/The_Love-Tap • 22h ago

Germany has more castles than the United States has McDonald’s. This is the Eltz castle, located in Wiershem. It has been owned and occupied by the same family for 33 generations over 800 years

Post image
47.9k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

557

u/capsaicin2 21h ago

And: Germany has more McDonald's than the US has castles!

213

u/Pale_Aide_5780 21h ago

There are more airplanes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.

52

u/PlasmaWhore 20h ago

The population of Denver is less than every city in Europe combined.

8

u/B1SQ1T 14h ago

More people have been to Berlin than I have

4

u/NUMBERS2357 13h ago

If you laid every redwood tree in California end to end, the national park service would get mad at you.

•

u/guydude24 9h ago

I once saw a butterfly. 

5

u/Audemarspiguetbd 21h ago

Outside it’s colder than at night

0

u/Pale_Aide_5780 21h ago

Walking is faster than going over the mountain.

0

u/Vistella 20h ago

coke taste better than out of a glass

2

u/Impossible-Pack-2501 18h ago

Not if you count Bouncy Castles!

•

u/Flannel_Panels 8h ago

Berlin alone has more Doner Kabab restaurants than all of Turkey

0

u/Unusual-Ebb-6441 18h ago

haha that stat kinda breaks my brain. but honestly it just shows how crazy dense germany is with old castles while the US is all about sprawl and fast food. wonder how many of those german mcdonalds are actually in castle buildings though.

3

u/PettyAssumptions 16h ago

We have a Burger King in an old nazi power station where you can still see the outlines of the reichsadler.

No castle McDonald's as far as I'm aware.

-1

u/dago1987 20h ago

I mean you can't steal a castle from castle-less natives, soooooo