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60 Funny History Memes That Would Make Even The Most Serious Historian Laugh
History is full of fascinating facts, surprising twists, and events that sound almost too ridiculous to be true. And while textbooks tell us what happened, the internet has found a funnier way to revisit the past: turning historical facts into hilarious posts and memes. From famous figures and bizarre traditions to events that look very different through a modern lens, there's plenty of material to work with.
Today, we came across an Instagram account that does exactly that, turning real historical facts and events into hilarious memes, along with plenty of funny posts that put a playful spin on the past. Keep scrolling, Pandas, and enjoy these amusing takes on history!
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Vexed Panda 4 days ago
🎶95 theses of faith on the door...95 theses of faith! Take one down, pass it around, 94 theses of faith on the door!
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Bill Swallow 4 days ago
My reply to myself below includes a picture of the farmhouse I grew up in. It was built in 1834 and will be 200 years old in only eight more years.
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Balseraph 4 days ago
The common misconception that people in the past were old at [arbitrary fairly young age here]. Extremely high infant mortality drove the AVERAGE life expectancy down. But if they survived to age 10, their chances of living to 75 were still pretty good. Yes disease and war and a lack of modern medicine did also drive down the average a little, but a 45 year old was never seen as decrepit or venerable.
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David Paterson 4 days ago (edited)
We had the same problem with rail gauges in Australia. Victoria changed its rail gauge to match NSW, and then NSW switched back to the old gauge.
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TotallyNOTAFox 4 days ago
The movie is tailored for audiences that don't have too much historical knowledge and that's why everyone looks more roman than greek in the movie (According to a historian)
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UnclePanda 4 days ago (edited)
Cycling through all three on a 20 minute period, repeating as necessary.
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Jeremy Klaxon 4 days ago
Completely stupid analogy. The boiling water is the way to carry energy from the energy source to the turbine that produces electricity. The novelty is in the way to produce steam, not the steam itself.
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Gunný Petersen 4 days ago (edited)
Once a century we humans cannot for our lives get the picture.we are made to evolve by destroying our weakest and this is apparently the way today.
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TotallyNOTAFox 5 days ago
A theory is that all his warmachine concepts had errors on purpose because he was a pacifist
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route246 3 days ago
In 1949, Jawaharlal Nehru gifted an elephant (not two) to the children of Japan. Welcomed with great enthusiasm in Tokyo, Indira the elephant became an enduring symbol of Indo-Japan friendship. The success of this gesture led India to present elephants to several other countries, helping to foster goodwill toward the newly independent nation. This early form of "elephant diplomacy" preceded the better-known era of China's panda diplomacy.
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Gunný Petersen 4 days ago
I traced my ancestors back to 165 AD. Understandable since im Icelandic.
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Slapdash1 4 days ago
The system was incredibly progressive and quite well designed. The nobles, around 10% of the people, had the right to legally rebel against a tyrannical king. Everyone (including the non-nobles) was guaranteed religious freedom (except, ironically, from the king who had to be Catholic). Like in modern days a bill needed the consent of the parliament and the king. The only thing they fücked up was that they didn't make majority vote the rule.
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David Paterson 4 days ago
The Roman sponge was more environmentally friendly than cutting down forests to make toilet paper.
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Ian Webling 4 days ago
The Swedish government and the Chief of the Navy were informed in 1975 that the oak trees planted on Visingsö Island in the 1830s had reached maturity and were ready for harvesting.
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TotallyNOTAFox 5 days ago
We germans have a lot of jokes about France surrendering, but to be fair they didn't have any other good option back then when the british troops had to evacuate and their defenses got basically steam rolled
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VisuallyChallengedPew 1 day ago
She's Izumo class aircraft carrying cruiser. Which, when planned and built, carried only helicopters. However, they are now being modified to carry F-35B fighters.
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Phantom Phoenix 4 days ago
Surely, even in 1925, a guy in his late 30s being all about himself, playing 'armies' in the sand, presumably making no enquiries into her interests, would, to a 17 year old girl, come across as an insufferable bore. She "respected his ambition and single-mindedness"? Nah, Dude. She was just being polite
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