whilst browsing the internetweb, looking for shizz to learn, i stumbled across this rather incredible fact about hot air balloons π
like, it sounds like something that would be a good plot for an episode of the mighty boosh π #missyou
#tdil that the first things to travel in a hot air balloon were a sheep, a duck and a rooster π³ ππ¦π.
it happened back in september of 1783 in paris and it once again proves that we humans arenβt all that brave π … getting animals to do out dirty work.
before we get into the details about the flight itself, can we just take a moment to appreciate the random selection of animals that they went with!? like, why a sheep, a rooster and a duck?! why not three ducks, or three chickens or three sheep!? π
anyway, as you can imagine, that first flight was quite the spectacle; 130,000 french citizens showed up to watch … even king louis xvi and his wife marie antoinette were there!
the flight lasted just eight minutes and the animals landed (unharmed) near the palace ππ». all of the spectators were pretty dumbfounded by the whole situation π± – youβve got to remember that this is two whole centuries before the wright brothers.
people later had a go in hot air balloons and life was good ππ» thank you crazy animal stunt doubles.
funnily, scientists didnβt really understand the physics of the situation and thought theyβd discovered a new gas that made the balloon fly π … this later ended in disaster when a dude named βpilatre de rozierβ died trying to cross the english channel with a hydrogen filled balloon (fire and hydrogen arenβt friends π₯)
anyway, on that cheery note! here concludes our random fact of the day! lolol. i feel like the boosh needs to come back with this as an episode!
byyeeeeee π #tdil
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slightly random one again today ππ» feel like reading some more? you just need to go ->here<-
(lovely picture of hot air balloons today … makes sense really π … the license is ->here<-)