• BarqsHasBite
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    1 year ago

    Fun fact: They had to use hydrogen instead of helium because the US had a monopoly on helium at the time and had a law against exporting it to Germany.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Also almost half of the people onboard survived, giving it historically high survival rates for an aircraft crashing on land.

  • @LauchsOP
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    21 year ago

    Real history: The Hindenburg. (Oh, the humanity!)

  • Endorkend
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    1 year ago

    He’d accidentally and inexplicably trigger the first Thermonuclear fusion explosion trying to make a balloon float and call it an absolute win.