themadgoat (61)in #health • 4 years agoFun Facts About Spanish Flu: Government Incompetence, Disinfectant, and the Patron Saint of PestilenceIn grade school I asked my teacher why we had to learn history. I mean who cares, it already happened. She pulled out…themadgoat (61)in #vaccines • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Fun facts About Anti-Vaxxers: Smallpox, Marie Antoinette, and the Leprosy ConnectionIn 1774 King Luis XV, died of smallpox. Vaccines hadn’t been invented yet at the time but the process of using dead…themadgoat (61)in #history • 5 years agoFun Facts About Smallpox: Mummies, Human Trafficking, and Benjamin FranklinIf you find yourself visited by the smallpox fairy you’re gonna spend a day or two with body aches, fever, and a wee…themadgoat (61)in #free-snaxaccount • 5 years agoSnax Accounts?I got a message asking me to join this Snax thing. I have to make a post to sign up so that what this is. Does anybody…themadgoat (61)in #history • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Fun Facts About Vampires: Rabies, Folklore, and Sesame StreetEvery culture has folk-stories about blood sucking fiends who haunt the night looking for helpless victims. India has…themadgoat (61)in #history • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Fun Facts About Saint Patrick's Day: Zombies, Civil War, and Gay PiratesHave you ever wondered why we dress up in green and get blackout drunk every year to celebrate an Irish saint? As with…themadgoat (61)in #history • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Fun Facts About Ice: Jefferson, The Ice King, and Steam Powered Machine GunsFor as long as people have lived anywhere that is cold as fuck, they have known the benefits of keeping shit preserved…themadgoat (61)in #life • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.My Book Just Went Live on AmazonAfter almost a year of sitting around in my underwear getting drunk and researching the sick and twisted history of…themadgoat (61)in #publishing • 6 years agoI need some help!I've finally collected enough of my drunk history blogs that I'm ready to pull the trigger on self-publishing them on…themadgoat (61)in #drugs • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Fun Facts About Marijuana: Muslims, Mormons, and NixonIn the 600’s Muslims started smoking the reefer to get around the Qu ‘ran’s ban on alcohol. The ban is technically on…themadgoat (61)in #weed • 6 years agoFun Facts About Marijuana: Presidential Drug Dealers, Louis Armstrong, and the Mexican Revolution of 1910There is little evidence of weed smoking in North America until the mid-1800’s when the psychoactive strains from…themadgoat (61)in #cannabis • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Fun Facts About Marijuana: Carl Sagan, Cholera, and Les MiserablesArcheologists have found hemp cords in pottery dating back as far as 10,000 years old in Taiwan and China.…themadgoat (61)in #milk • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Fun facts About Milk: The Alamo, Beetroot Hooch, and Al CaponePeople started domesticating animals about ten thousand years ago. Unfortunately, it would still be several thousand…themadgoat (61)in #movies • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Fun Facts About Movie Censorship: Porn, Boxing, Sacrilege and Fatima's Coochie Coochie DanceIn 1877 Eadweard Muybridge discovered stop motion photography while photographing a galloping horse. Eadward’s…themadgoat (61)in #movie • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Fun Facts About Cinema: Racism, Edison, and NickelodeonsHollywood wasn’t the first hub of movie making in America. Thomas Edison was cranking out movies in Fort Lee, New…themadgoat (61)in #movies • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Fun facts About Movie History: Mostly what a douche Thomas Edison is.The reason why movies and television work is because our bodies are stupid and lazy. When you look at an image it…themadgoat (61)in #christmas • 6 years agoFun Facts About Santa Claus: Prostitution, kidnapping, Racism, and OdinSanta was invented by Coca-Cola to market soda during the holidays. No, they didn’t. They weren’t even the first soda…themadgoat (61)in #christmas • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Fun facts About Christmas: Pagan Orgies, Loki, and Puritan HatersWhat comes to mind when you think about Christmas? Santa, little baby Jesus, presents, Christmas trees and mistletoe…themadgoat (61)in #history • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Fun Facts About Thanksgiving: Decapitations, Civil War, and Mary Had a Little LambThe pilgrims on the Mayflower are hardly the first people to hold a celebration giving thanks to their god. In 1565…themadgoat (61)in #moviereview • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Madgoat Movie Review Roundup: A Star is Born, Predator, The Meg, Equalizer 2, and moreIt’s been getting cold down here in the Lone Star State for the first time in like five years. Rainy, cozy, don’t make…