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Do you have questions about history that no reliable source can give you? Do you know of some lesser known historical facts that need to be more well known?

Then welcome to r/shittyaskhistory!


Do you have questions about history that no reliable source can give you? Do you know of some lesser known historical facts that need to be more well known?

Then welcome to r/shittyaskhistory!

Ask about any era of history and get answers from shitty historians! Submit historical corrections and get feedback from your peers!

"Did Blackbeard really wear burning brands in his beard?" is a good question; "What items were worn in some other famous beards? Also a good question.

Photos of the contents of Abraham Lincoln's pockets: good submission. Contents from the pockets linking to as yet undiscovered historical realization? Even better!

The wearing of pith helmets is strongly encouraged.


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16

Has pope ever come into contact with antipope?

10 Comments
2025/01/27
05:30 UTC

1

Which communist dictator would had the minions follow the most?

2 Comments
2025/01/26
07:59 UTC

0

H*tler was a dumbass

Instead of killing jews, he could force them to war. They die-his benefit, they win-his benefit

9 Comments
2025/01/24
10:59 UTC

6

Genuine question

Who was overall worse to their own workers/people? Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler or King Henry the Eighth? I need to solve an argument with my mum.

8 Comments
2025/01/22
12:49 UTC

7

Which conspiracy theories were actually proven false, if any?

4 Comments
2025/01/20
17:36 UTC

5

What would had The tsars,lenin,stalin and Yeltsin think for skibidi toilet since it came from their country?

0 Comments
2025/01/20
16:12 UTC

2

Did I meet a WW2 ghost?

One time when I was in my room, I was using a possibly fake ghost detector and was looking at WW2 photos for education and looking up some fun facts on it. But as I was doing that, my lights flickered and almost went out making the sound that it's about to go out. But thankfully, they didn't went out and stay lit and I had no candles lit in my room.

I was in 10th grade (15) when this happened. I am now 16-17

Did I summon a ghost back then? And no, it was not bad weather outside.

If yes, which WW2 figure did I end up meeting when they are a ghost?

0 Comments
2025/01/20
02:51 UTC

17

When people vomit in the southern atmosphere, do they "throw down?"

5 Comments
2025/01/20
01:50 UTC

24

Were the dinosaurs sad that they went extinct?

12 Comments
2025/01/18
19:23 UTC

12

If we evolved from monkeys then why did we stop shitting in our hands and flinging poop at our enemies?

9 Comments
2025/01/17
06:11 UTC

40

Was Abraham Lincoln gay? Because I read he got blown by some dude in a theater.

54 Comments
2025/01/17
06:09 UTC

8

Why does Jack sparrow still need to be a pirate? Didn’t his movies make like billions of dollars?

8 Comments
2025/01/16
00:10 UTC

22

Why did George Washington’s penis grow every time he told a lie?

9 Comments
2025/01/14
20:25 UTC

4

If the Kim family are consider gods to North korea, then what are Karl marx and Lenin to them also?

5 Comments
2025/01/14
13:58 UTC

17

Was the Pharaoh convincing the citizens of Egypt to build some massive monuments on the Giza Plateau the first ever recorded instance of a pyramid scheme in written history?

3 Comments
2025/01/13
16:10 UTC

25

Would Leonardo DaVinci have ever eaten ass?

5 Comments
2025/01/12
20:55 UTC

2

Why were most Englishmen perpendicular in the 1400 hundreds?

I encountered this claim in the scholarly text A History of the Past: Life Reeked With Joy, following discussion of Crusades against the Islams and of England wining and losing while numerously fighting for land in France.

2 Comments
2025/01/10
18:33 UTC

8

Why did Queen Elizabeth II go on national TV talking about her horrible anus? Did Diana have something to do with it?

1 Comment
2025/01/10
05:52 UTC

3

How old is history?

6 Comments
2025/01/10
01:13 UTC

3

Which historical figure has too many fangirls?

4 Comments
2025/01/07
21:52 UTC

6

How come Typhoid Mary got put in jail but COVID Donald became president?

5 Comments
2025/01/06
08:07 UTC

79

If Leonardo DiCaprio died on the Titanic, how was he able to paint the Sistine Chapel?

29 Comments
2025/01/05
01:51 UTC

5

Why did the USSR and PRC purge so many communists/socialists who opposed their regimes? Were there no boomers around to tell them the people they were killing didn't exist, since all leftists supported them?

2 Comments
2025/01/03
04:46 UTC

9

Why is brown skin the only accurate description out of red white yellow and black?

Did pink skinned sound too much like pussy skinned? Was everybody fighting over who would get the cool sounding colors like black skinned?

5 Comments
2025/01/03
03:16 UTC

9

Back in the late 2024s, what did people do before computers were invented?

How did they even survive? And why was the internet only invented this morning?

17 Comments
2025/01/01
19:01 UTC

33

Did women suck dick back then?

If people back then wouldn't eat ass, they probably wouldn't suck dick neither.

12 Comments
2025/01/01
06:50 UTC

3

What's the dealio?

If Theodore Roosevelt had the Square Deal and FDR had the New Deal will Trump have the Raw Deal?

9 Comments
2024/12/29
05:01 UTC

2

If Noah only brought one male and one female of each kind of animal on the ark, then how did animals not go extinct?

14 Comments
2024/12/29
00:05 UTC

1

What is the connection between the Aya Sofya and ayahuasca?

0 Comments
2024/12/28
18:39 UTC

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