40 Of The Funniest Memes That Explain History Better Than Textbooks

Italy: We are with the victors, we spread only pizza and love, forget the first couple of years…

Well, the USSR wasn't that innocent either in the whole situation to be fair

Yes, you also cancelled at least 20 million people! 🤬

That is the equivalent of 7k today Only 16 years after they began their long, sad march along the Trail of Tears, the Choctaws learned of people starving to death in Ireland. With great empathy, in 1847 Choctaw individuals made donations totaling $170,

Witch!

You’re the only creature who ruins the planet, you mean.

*produces the largest number of independence days ever*

Got to admit I chuckled too hard at this

In ancient Greece picking religions was like us picking out a restaurant. And there were some super secret ones scholars still don’t know much about.

maybe they were proud? I know I would be ^^

Oh those Russians!

If you click through to Instagram, there’s audio of the chorus. (And no random “Stealing via watermark from BP 😉) Or listen to the who song here: https://youtu.be/16y1AkoZkmQ

This is true

I'm not going to look up whether those dates are true. Because it tickles me to think they are.

History is written by the victors.

Just made a big batch of chilli and garlic deterrent yesterday!

so instead of going up, they went down

I'm pretty sure that any boy who turned 18 in 1942 knew exactly what he was in for.

Even Hatshepsut, although woman, was the son of Ra!

Florida (Ron DeSantis) bans books because they didn't want people to know things like these from History. Breaking News: Florida bans BP

short end of the stick. imagine life if he was allowed to live his life?

Ra ra Rasputin!

We Americans sure have been chumps since January, 2001.

I believe he's what the Brits would call a twat.

Reminds me of the time a chinese general wanted to flood the enemy camp by breaking a dam. Problem was he flooded the huge city he actually wanted to protect and abou 100.000 people died because of this stupid mistake, if I remember correctly.

Even in 8th century BC, doggos were the goodest bois and girls.

Olympic Games Berlin 1936

Modern translation: I like big butts and I cannot lie.....

That's some epic fail journalism

This is the best censoring job I have ever seen.

Giggles

I love it when Hitler made the Japanese honorary aryans for attacking pearl harbor. Imagine his next move if he'd been victorious in europe.

this needs more details. Holeee C**p.. In 1808, a lover’s quarrel in Paris led to one of the most interesting duels ever fought. Monsieur LePique and Monsieur de Grandpré both fell in love with the same ballerina. So they did what anyone caught in a 19th century Parisian love triangle would do: they fought a duel via hot air balloon. https://theinternetsaysitstrue.com/2022/01/03/lepique-and-grandpre-the-hot-air-balloon-duel/

Is this why most chefs are badasses?

Ronald Reagan almost makes me religious again. Just to know he is burning in hell and isn't just dead.

Crazy how common those names were in the Middle East

I mean, Crassus was one of the biggest scam artists in history, so what did you expect?!

"mostly"

To be fair though, they were bloodthirsty tyrants who needed killing

I always hope hes not a murderer or rxxxist, but thats just me

Starts as top image, becomes second image one lines have been broken?

An interesting life isn't necessarily peaceful

JJ Walker, who just wanted a cool catchphrase.

Nothing scary about using his method of torture as a symbol to recruit the masses

A few IVF-doctors started playing catch up. One is already suspected of fathering 280 children.

Okay this one made me chuckle

Ah, Pingu - quality.

Say what you want about British museums...this one has Islam's finger prints all over it. Taliban.

It should be from United Kingdom.

Wait til you see our still classified plans for invading mexico!

"love" comes from French "l'oeuf"...

Proof that men are more concerned about size than women

And the Vietcong did the same thing to US soldiers.

Ernest Shackleton and his ship Endurance. To be fair every member of that expedition survived. Surprisingly quite a few lived to a ripe old age.

Europe's Betsy Ross was later committed after a breakdown

Sometimes ya just gotta find the right fit, ya know?

You got scammed my friend. That's not Holy nor Roman nor an empire