BlogHide Resteemsthemadgoat (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 the old, “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.” Philosophy was…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 cells from infected patients to inoculate against smallpox was sweeping Europe at…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 bit of vomiting. Over the next four days, red spots are going to start breaking…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 have any insight into what I'm blindly signing up for? I want to link my…resteemedrunicar (72)in contest • 5 years agoCaption Contest #65 |🏆 Winners of #64 🏆| + NEW Art Caption ContestWelcome to the 65th week of the art Caption Contest. A simple but unique contest searching for the most creative titles for digital art. All you have to do to enter is to make a caption and post it…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 “Bhoots”, China has the “Jiang Shi”, there are the Greek “Vrykolakas”, and in…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 most of our holidays, the answer involves a little bit of history, a little bit…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 with ice. The frigid temperature and thin air on Mount Everest has been keeping…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 everything from Christmas to the Bubonic Plague I finally collected enough posts…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 Amazon. I'm in desperate need of some help from the Steemit brain-trust. To make…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 intoxicating substances, but weed was never mentioned specifically, so people…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 India and Africa became popular in Europe. Unfortunately, that includes Indians…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. Astrophysicist Carl Sagan floated the idea in 1977 that Hemp might have been THE first…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 years until you could drink a milkshake without getting explosive diarrhea. The…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 benefactor, Leyland Stanford, had a book written by someone else analyzing Muybridge'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 Jersey while his competition was taking advantage of the extra sunlight in…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 lingers for a spilt second while your eyes and brain communicate to figure out what…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 company to whore out Santa’s image. That honor goes to a company called White…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? The origins of Christmas traditions are much older and also much newer than you…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, fifty-six years before the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, Spanish explorer Don…
