Walking around in general public in only Speedos.
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the use of towels as a territorial marker
They draped one over the back of Poland that time.
Zyklon B?
The automobile - pronounce it out loud, you'll say it something like "ow-toe moh-beel", i.e. in a German accent. Because Germans invented cars.
The assault rifle. They invented the concept, a handful of prototypes without the relevant doctrine (or for the 1890s one, even a detachable magazine) is irrelevant. Fight me, @bluewing.
I think the otto & diesel cycles are a better claim than the automobile, given there are like 100 different competing "first automobiles" to chose from
The Wankel engine is also a German invention. Though you could argue it's an improved Otto cycle. Also the inventor is problematic to say the least.
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They invented Germany, that was a pretty big deal
Meh. Strongly derivative work, and they kept reinventing the wheel.
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Name something the Germans didn't invent.
The bicycle
The car
The computer (arguably, with the Zuse Z3)
Spoiler: I'm German.
Not the computer, but the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer (which would be a stage in computer hardware.)
It would be Babbage's machine as mechanical computers precede digital ones and only if we only allow nonspecific turing complete machines.
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Schadenfreude. I mean they probably didn't invent the feeling but I can give them credit for it along with the word.
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Everyone knows they invented the Haber-Bosch process. Pretty important shit.
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Health insurance. Little known fact but it was actually invented not just before Google but before the entire internet.
Otto von Bismarck, 1883
The rotary engine, also known as the Wankel engine
In fact, I've got a Wankel engine in my pants right now.
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Hard to say. There are soo many Germans, who knows what they’ve googled!
Those cool windows that Americans mistake for broken. I'm American and I want those windows... also a bidet.
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