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   Jesse 🇫🇷 (jessew@mk.cpluspatch.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 22:14:20 JST Jesse 🇫🇷

   :jesse_german: German people of fedi, I need INFORMATION
   
   i have to do a presentation on Niedersachschen (Lower Saxony) and I need funny facts and things to put in about it!!

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     Weltzeitgeist (wackjackle@norden.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:00:35 JST Weltzeitgeist

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     @jessew
     'The most toxic hole in the world is in Lower Saxony'

     'Das giftigste Loch der Welt liegt in Niedersachsen'
     https://www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/niedersachsen/zweiter-weltkrieg-munition-sanierung-niedersachsen-dethlinger-teich-munster-dethlingen-92826352.html

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     kadse :nonbinary_flag: (kadse@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:00:37 JST kadse :nonbinary_flag:

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     @jessew one of the well-known foods eaten in north-western lower saxony is Grünkohl mit Pinkel (kale stew with a special type of smoked sausage called pinkel) but translated literally it's "kale and piss" :D

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     Mx Amber Alex (she/it) (amberage@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:00:45 JST Mx Amber Alex (she/it)

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     @jessew their motto used to be "Sie kennen unsere Pferde. Erleben Sie unsere Stärken." (you know our horses, experience our powers/strong suits)

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     Åki (qwertziop@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:00:46 JST Åki

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     @jessew no vineyards in Niedersachsen, that‘s why Niedersachsen never was part of the roman empire.

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     Tenkoman (tenkoman@sueden.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:03:32 JST Tenkoman

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     @jessew Fun facts about Niedersachsen/Lower Saxony:

     - Each village has their own kind of Wedding Soup

     - The best known meeting spot in Hanover is „The horse‘s ass“

     - Salzgitter is a mess of many fused villages and a iron plant

     - The Deutsche Bahn tends to forget that Wolfsburg has an ICE stop

     - Boßelwandern is a common Father‘s Day activity (with a lot of booze)

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     Coffee (chawopro@jorts.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:03:38 JST Coffee

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     @jessew There is a region in Lower Saxony called "Ostfriesland" which most Germans are only 'familiar' with because they are the butt of a lot of German jokes. In these jokes they usually get the (unfair) role of stupid, backwards yockels.

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     Yuri (yuri@kitty.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:03:41 JST Yuri

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     @kadse@chaos.social @jessew@mk.cpluspatch.com Grew up around Brunswick, we called Pinkel "Grützwurst"

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     Jay16K (jay16k@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:03:46 JST Jay16K

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     @tenkoman @jessew Yes Wolfsburg (Which is HQ to Volkswagem) is a hot mess for ICE trains, and it's still happening Business newspaper Wirtschaftswoche wrote in 2018! https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/dienstleister/deutsche-bahn-warum-ices-immer-wieder-an-wolfsburg-vorbeifahren/20806484.html

     It's still happening in 2024: https://www.braunschweiger-zeitung.de/niedersachsen/wolfsburg/article407438939/bahnreisende-sauer-ice-verpasst-halt-am-hauptbahnhof-wolfsburg.html

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     Jesse 🇫🇷 (jessew@mk.cpluspatch.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:06:45 JST Jesse 🇫🇷

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     @kouett@soc.kouett.net.eu.org i'm failing german anyway :disintegrate: better go out with a funny presentation

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     Lou ? (kouett@soc.kouett.net.eu.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:06:46 JST Lou ?

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     @jessew I'm sure fedi will be a reliable source of true and useful information
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     Jesse 🇫🇷 (jessew@mk.cpluspatch.com)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 01:50:38 JST Jesse 🇫🇷

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     @lizzy@social.vlhl.dev evil

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     akkoma flavored lizzy (fleckenstein@lizzy.rs alt) (lizzy@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 01:50:39 JST akkoma flavored lizzy (fleckenstein@lizzy.rs alt)

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     @jessew Wer nannte es Niedersachsen obwohl es über Sachsen liegt

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     yaya (yaya@ak.uwu.is)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 02:34:06 JST yaya

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     @jessew town hall hannover has a unique type of lift: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuppelaufzug?wprov=sfla1
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     DerSiS (sisadness@troet.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 02:34:09 JST DerSiS

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     @jessew It's said that lower Saxony has more sheep than human as citizens but I didn't check 🐑🐑🐑🐑

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     tarneo (tarneo@toot.renn.es)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 02:34:14 JST tarneo

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     @jessew I had a funny anecdote about Chemnitz, which is in... Saxony :(

     Well I'll say it anyway I guess : In Chemnitz, which was renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt during the DDR, there is a huge bronze head of Karl Marx in front of the building that hosted the head of the communist party for the state. But now, this building, which also has a big bronze plate on the facade saying "Workers of all countries, unite" in 5 languages, is.... The ministry of economy.

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     Flauschtext (flauschtext@mastodon.de)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 02:34:16 JST Flauschtext

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     @jessew Lower Saxony is the original Saxony (back in early medieval times).

     They had great radio comedy in the form of Frühstyxradio. Oliver Kalkofe and Oliver Welke started out there. A bit low brow and often tasteless and occasionally scandalous at the time (the 90s and early aughties)

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     Chasai (chasai@skeptics.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 02:34:19 JST Chasai

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     • LSN – Statistik Niedersachsen

     @sisadness @jessew

     https://www.statistik.niedersachsen.de/themen/viehbestandschafe/ergebnisse-der-viehbestandserhebung-schafe-207499.html

     Sadly not true.

     Maybe @Statistik_NI knows more.

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     Ein Wesen (ein_wesen@social.raccoon.college)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 02:34:28 JST Ein Wesen

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     @jessew the slogan of the town Buxtehude is "Wo die Hunde mit dem Schwanz bellen" (where the dogs bark with their tail) which is based on a mistranslation between german and dutch
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     404 name not found (belu@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 02:34:31 JST 404 name not found

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     @jessew There's a village called Petze which means tattletale/snitch. It is now part of Sibbesse which is northeast of the 7 mountains that are mentioned in the Snow White fairytale.

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     Kalle Wirsch 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇱 (kallewirsch@federation.network)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 18:30:52 JST Kalle Wirsch 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇱

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     SunDancer (sundancer@metalhead.club)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 18:30:58 JST SunDancer

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     @jessew "Moin" is the word used for every greeting phrase ever at any point in time, night or day.

     2am Moin
     5pm Moin
     High Noon Moin

     The correct answer is either Moin or a firm, acknowledging nod towards the greeting person. Less words are better. Silence is golden. Otherwise you might get branded a Sabbelkopp.

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     Мiri (miri123@troet.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 18:31:02 JST Мiri

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     @jessew the best club of Wolfsburg is called "Sauna-Klub" and it's located in an old heating basement for a sauna of a former indoor swimming venue which is now a cultural center. There, you can also rent the old swimming pool for big parties like e.g. weddings.

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     Bernd (hopfgeist@digitalcourage.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 18:31:04 JST Bernd

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     @SunDancer @jessew And people from Hamburg, or tourists who say "Moin moin!" are chatterboxes.

     Ostfriesland ("East Frisia") is the westernmost part of the German North Sea coast, including the coastal islands except Wangerooge, which is part of Friesland, which is to the East of East Frisia.

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     Awwwdra (kayssun@lsbt.me)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 18:31:20 JST Awwwdra

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     @tenkoman @jessew
     The meeting spot in Hanover is in front of the main station and is called „unterm Schwanz“ which translates to „under the tail“ but Schwanz can also mean „dick“ which makes it more funny

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     LSN – Statistik Niedersachsen (statistik_ni@norden.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 18:32:22 JST LSN – Statistik Niedersachsen

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     In 2024, almost half (47%) of Germany's potato cultivation area was located in Lower Saxony. 🥔 🚜
     https://magazin.statistik.niedersachsen.de/bodennutzung-in-niedersachsen-2024-jahresrueckblick-teil-2/

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     LSN – Statistik Niedersachsen (statistik_ni@norden.social)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 09:56:43 JST LSN – Statistik Niedersachsen

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     • Chasai

     @Chasai @sisadness @jessew

     That's right, at the end of 2024 there were only around 160k sheep. 🐑

     For many years, there were more pigs than people in Lower Saxony. However, that changed in 2021. As of November 2024, the region had around 7 million pigs and approximately 8 million residents. 🐖

     https://www.statistik.niedersachsen.de/themen/viehbestandschafe/die-viehbestandserhebung-schafe-in-niedersachsen-tabellen-205224.html

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     DerSiS (sisadness@troet.cafe)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 09:56:45 JST DerSiS

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     • LSN – Statistik Niedersachsen

     @Statistik_NI @Chasai @jessew That's cool! Thanks for correcting me and bringing up this fact. 7M is a lot 🤗

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