Why Did Germany Have to Sacrifice Sausages to Fly Zeppelins?
BrainStuff
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4.0 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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During World War I, German forces flew menacing zeppelin airships into war zones -- but they had to give up a lot of sausages to do it. Learn why zeppelins and sausage were both made with cow intestines in this episode of BrainStuff.
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