celticpyro:

tilthat:

TIL that rollercoasters were invented to distract Americans from sin. In the 1880s, hosiery businessman LaMarcus Thompson didn’t like that Americans were going to places like saloons and brothels and created the first rollercoaster on Coney Island to persuade them to go there instead.

via reddit.com

“Why go drinking and canoodling when you can plummet to your death at 150 mph?”