/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!
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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!
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.
Listen to audio archives of shitty history essays with a twist, by the late great Shitstorian Paul Harvey
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What was the Genghis Con? Like a bait-and-switch. or a Ponzi shceme? How did so many people fall for it?
11:55 UTC
How could John Wayne have been an actor, a cowboy, a clown, AND a serial killer all at the same time?
20:41 UTC
If Kim Il-sung, why didn't Kim Jong-il or Kim Jong-Un sing as well?
01:01 UTC
How could there have been an Underground Railroad if subways didn’t exist yet?
05:22 UTC
is there any record of animatronics turning against their creators?
16:54 UTC
Back when being gay was illegal in Western Countries, did guys still get arrested if their partner was *really* cute?
22:10 UTC
If you follow history you will know that racism gets a blow every 6 decades. Slavery ended in the 1860s, segregation ended in the 1960s, so what form of racism is projected to end in the 2060s?
*edit I meant every 6th decade in a century my bad
23:41 UTC
Was ghengis khan Turkish? If so what do Greeks think about him?
15:21 UTC
How could FDR run for president so many times when he couldn’t even walk?
02:31 UTC
When Obama was elected president, why didn’t they change the name of the White House to the Black House?
Are they racist or something?
03:23 UTC
Why did horses join the KKK?
ive seen pictures of horses dressed in kkk uniforms
so like what made these horses decide to become racist ?
17:11 UTC
Why hasn't Judaism sued Christianity and Islam for copyright infringement?
02:17 UTC
What if museum guides narrated history in a similar fashion to gossip?
20:43 UTC
Why did the Mayans build Chechen Ichkeria on the Yucatan?
03:14 UTC
How many fish died during dday?
With machine gun fire and artillery shells raking the ocean, many brave fishies must have lost their lives. Any estimates on how many? Also interested in the casualties by ethnicity.
02:41 UTC
How can America be the land of the free if it has laws?
21:32 UTC
When the Europeans decided to go back to Africa (where all humans came from), why did people call it colonization and imperialism?
They were just trying to return to their original homeland!
02:14 UTC
Has America found its fathers yet? I keep hearing about people “founding fathers” there which I guess means finding them.
01:31 UTC
How did the French manage to block the German Emperor's lower passage for so many years?
I came across this fact in the scholarly text A History of the Past: Life Reeked With Joy, and I was curious as to how the French managed to do so.
Did it have something to do with Louis XIV giving people food and artillery after becoming King of the Sun?
04:32 UTC
Why were the Burberry Coast Pirates such fashion snobs? Would Nautica not have been good enough? How did they ever lose if they looked so fabulous?
14:38 UTC
Did the people in the middle ages know they were in the middle of time?
10:13 UTC
Why the Dark Ages gotta be so racist?
04:04 UTC
Who was General Quarters and why does his name strike such panic into sailors even to this day?
18:02 UTC
Why did Japan pick a used sanitary napkin as their flag?
22:52 UTC
Why didn’t China invent COVID back in the 13th century to scare away the mongols? Why only now?
18:01 UTC
Why didn't poor people in the Great Depression just buy more money?
02:41 UTC
In the ancient world, why weren’t horses required to have airbags and seatbelts?
21:51 UTC
Who invented paperwork, and why?
18:17 UTC
Is it true that initially Christofer Colombus caller native americane pakistanis instead of Indians?
16:53 UTC
Was Y2K a prophecy?
The tech bubble burst in 2000 just as the Y2K had predicted. Coincidence or prophecy or aliens?
01:27 UTC