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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!**

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to r/shittyaskhistory by TangoFrosty
3 months ago
For all the life like Greek and Roman statues, why didn’t they just use flesh to make it more realistic? Are they stupid?
to r/shittyaskhistory by Meerkat_Mayhem_
3 months ago
Is it OK to make fun of people from the past, because they were so incredibly stupid?
to r/shittyaskhistory by Coolenough-to
3 months ago
If Neil Armstrong discovered the moon, how come it wasn't named Armstrongia?
to r/shittyaskhistory by TomAto314
3 months ago
Why did the US choose a bi-camel for its Congress?
to r/shittyaskhistory by Ill-Organization-719
3 months ago
If Sir Abraham Lincoln wasn't assassinated, would he still be alive today?
to r/shittyaskhistory by Fiveby21
3 months ago
If medieval China was anti-LGBT, then how did Empress Wang come to power?
in China
to r/shittyaskhistory by NoIce7696
3 months ago
Why is Greece Broke?
in Greece
to r/shittyaskhistory by WilderJackall
4 months ago
Why don't we just outlaw war?
to r/shittyaskhistory by Dry-Interaction-1246
8 months ago
Why did the US drop an atomic bomb on Saganaki rendering it probably inedible?
to r/shittyaskhistory by AbouBenAdhem
8 months ago
Did the Swedes originally invent Ikea furniture for easy transport on Viking long ships?
to r/shittyaskhistory by buttflakes27
1 year ago
did noah have a bitch on the ark?
to r/shittyaskhistory by AbouBenAdhem
8 months ago
Is Fred Flintstone’s “yabba-dabba-doo” Proto-Indo-European or Proto-Afro-Asiatic?
to r/shittyaskhistory by AbouBenAdhem
8 months ago
What if we had been able to collect the data for Greenland in time?
in Greenland
to r/shittyaskhistory by AbouBenAdhem
8 months ago
When did pigs decide to speak Latin, and why are they so bad at it?
to r/shittyaskhistory by AbouBenAdhem
8 months ago
Is this the origin of the myth of the Sphynx?
to r/shittyaskhistory by AbouBenAdhem
8 months ago
If a monkey with a typewriter creating the works of Shakespeare is a statistical impossibility, how did a gibbon manage to write “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”?
to r/shittyaskhistory by AbouBenAdhem
8 months ago
I am a schoolteacher in early 21st-century southern New England. When creating a European History midterm, what answer would I assign for question 7 on page 3?
in New England
to r/shittyaskhistory by chickenwinggeek
8 months ago
How could the legendary king of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty, Sejong the Great, weigh 8,500 tons and be 21 meters wide? How did he not die of cardiovascular disease and run at a max speed of 35mph with this weight?
to r/shittyaskhistory by AbouBenAdhem
8 months ago
Did steppe-parents and steppe-siblings originate from families intermarrying with the Mongols?
to r/shittyaskhistory by AbouBenAdhem
8 months ago
Did John Hancock realize that other people wanted to sign the Declaration of Independence too?
to r/shittyaskhistory by AbouBenAdhem
8 months ago
How did Florence and other cities in Tuscany deal with the Tuscan Raiders?
to r/shittyaskhistory by AbouBenAdhem
8 months ago
How come so many ancient sculptures are broken? Were Roman sculptors just really clumsy?
to r/shittyaskhistory by AbouBenAdhem
8 months ago
At what point in time is French projected to become a completely silent language?
to r/shittyaskhistory by AbouBenAdhem
8 months ago
Did the Norse settlers who followed Erik the Red to "Greenland" sue him for false advertising?
to r/shittyaskhistory by AbouBenAdhem
8 months ago
How did Europeans know about the English Channel before the invention of television?