The Mad Goat (@themadgoat) — Hive

themadgoat (62)in #funny • 5 years ago
Fun Facts About Tomatoes: Aztecs, Witches, and The Supreme Court
Tomatoes are as ingrained in Italian culture as Potatoes are to Ireland. But just like the mighty potato, it originally came from South America and it took several hundred…
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themadgoat (62)in #hive • 5 years ago
Quick question
Is there a Hive app? I looked in the Apple App Store and didn’t see one.
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themadgoat (62)in #covid-19 • 5 years ago
A brief History of Face Masks: Animal Bladders, Bras, and Sexually Frustrated Nuns
Roman philosopher, Pliny the Elder, suggested workers should cover their mouths with skins of animal bladders to keep from breathing in dust while mining cinnabar, which was…
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themadgoat (62)in #funny • 5 years ago
Fun Facts About the Spanish Flu: Government Inaction, Disinfectant, and the Patron Saint of Pestilence
In 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…
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themadgoat (62)in #vaccines • 6 years ago
Fun facts About Anti-Vaxxers: Smallpox, Marie Antoinette, and the Leprosy Connection
In 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…
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themadgoat (62)in #history • 6 years ago
Fun Facts About Smallpox: Mummies, Human Trafficking, and Benjamin Franklin
If 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…
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themadgoat (62)in #free-snaxaccount • 6 years ago
Snax 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…
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runicar (72)in #contest • 6 years ago
Caption Contest #65 |🏆 Winners of #64 🏆| + NEW Art Caption Contest
Welcome 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…
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themadgoat (62)in #history • 6 years ago
Fun Facts About Vampires: Rabies, Folklore, and Sesame Street
Every 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…
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themadgoat (62)in #history • 6 years ago
Fun Facts About Saint Patrick's Day: Zombies, Civil War, and Gay Pirates
Have 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…
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themadgoat (62)in #history • 6 years ago
Fun Facts About Ice: Jefferson, The Ice King, and Steam Powered Machine Guns
For 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…
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themadgoat (62)in #life • 6 years ago
My Book Just Went Live on Amazon
After 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…
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themadgoat (62)in #publishing • 6 years ago
I 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…
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themadgoat (62)in #drugs • 6 years ago
Fun Facts About Marijuana: Muslims, Mormons, and Nixon
In 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…
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themadgoat (62)in #weed • 6 years ago
Fun Facts About Marijuana: Presidential Drug Dealers, Louis Armstrong, and the Mexican Revolution of 1910
There 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…
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themadgoat (62)in #cannabis • 6 years ago
Fun Facts About Marijuana: Carl Sagan, Cholera, and Les Miserables
Archeologists 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…
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themadgoat (62)in #milk • 6 years ago
Fun facts About Milk: The Alamo, Beetroot Hooch, and Al Capone
People started domesticating animals about ten thousand years ago. Unfortunately, it would still be several thousand years until you could drink a milkshake without getting…
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themadgoat (62)in #movies • 6 years ago
Fun Facts About Movie Censorship: Porn, Boxing, Sacrilege and Fatima's Coochie Coochie Dance
In 1877 Eadweard Muybridge discovered stop motion photography while photographing a galloping horse. Eadward’s benefactor, Leyland Stanford, had a book written by someone else…
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themadgoat (62)in #movie • 6 years ago
Fun Facts About Cinema: Racism, Edison, and Nickelodeons
Hollywood 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…
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themadgoat (62)in #movies • 6 years ago
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…
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