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Human history is full of gruesome power struggles, cruel executions, sickening genocides, famine, disease, and history facts sometimes seems unappealing and grim, to say the least. Luckily, Twitter account @MemesOnHistory is shedding some light on our past's interesting facts by using the internet's most beloved funny memes.

The best part, however, is that almost all of these historical memes are so accurate, publishers could even include them in their textbooks. And they should. Students would probably relate to history memes better and understand the historical events better if, for example, SpongeBob SquarePants excerpts were used to illustrate the Second World War or US Middle East Policy. Scroll down to enjoy this list of some of the best memes, compiled by Bored Panda, and while you're at it, pay attention and learn some funny history facts, why don't you!

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well as Robin Williams once said. "If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days."

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Nadia Marques de Carvalho
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

'All of history' since the 15th/16th century. History is more than the 'white man's' civilisation.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aaand no cats around, cause witchhunts and cats are evil propaganda.... There you go Europe!

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nordic sailors be like, "Yeah, we go there to fish and stuff, but there's already people living there."

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Luca Valerio
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Admittedly beside the point of the nice meme, but flags of countries that didn't even participate are present, while flags of participating countries like Italy - that not only did participate, but is also in the top 5 of most casualties - are missing.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Considering that there has been warfare all over the inhabitable parts of the globe at some point or another, I think if westerners wouldn't have done it, someone else would have. Afterall, greed is a human condition.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Summer '89, I visit W. Germany, touch the Wall. Nov. 9 '89, Wall comes down. Coincidence?

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John Baker
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Prohibition didn't completely ban alcohol. Commercial production and sale of alcoholic beverages was banned, as was importation, but private citizens were allowed to brew beer for personal consumption. Commercial breweries had to keep alcohol content below 0.5%, but many managed to stay afloat by selling brewing supplies to the public.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or Bill Clinton when he saw Monica Lewinsky approaching as he was standing with Hillary.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Late start of operations, bad condition of the roads in Russia, the russians strategy of retreating in towards Syberia and seting fire to everything they couldn't take so the enemy won't find any resurces... basically every time some nation tried to invade them got caught there by the winter and got defeated by the hard weather conditions for wich they were not prepered

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the part of the south that became the Confederate States. But, since they were their ...

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John L
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why it is so important to know the difference between the Latin phrases of "de jure" and "de facto". In the long run, "de jure"(before the law) always tends to carry the day.

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Jane Shepard
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yes, it did free them. It didn't free all of them due to Presidential powers and the fact that the South was separate and war time rules and etc etc. The U.S. isn't setup today as it was then and for the time period and structure of the US back then, it was a huge leap forward. But instead of being thankful for what Lincoln did, lazy a** blacks still want to blame others for their failings. I agree it didn't free them all and Lincoln actually shouldn't have bothered at all, it wasn't worth a war and the death of white men to free their a**es

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Suzanne Tilson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kinda easy to fail if your slave owner is so insecure they needed to make stereotypical excuses to keep people who were the back bone of their precious dream under their boot. Are you saying that's it their lazy fault that, after years of watching former slave wealth and white " superiority" benefit white people, a white criminal has a better chance of getting home alive than an innocent black child. I beg to differ.

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Suzanne Tilson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is African influences in country music, rock and roll, some pop, the blues and jazz....do you listen to that, mister

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June Greenberg
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dam right John ! Socialism like chipping in to protect the weaker and not let them starve on the streets, how dumb is that ?! Ahahaha !! Better have a Donald and two wars you cannot end, but you are the smart ones ! Yey ! Stupid French we are !

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I laughed out loud at this one and then felt kinda bad about my reaction..

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It wouldn't change the outcome, if it had been some other guy with a different name one year later. Columbus was just an adventurer, not an evil mastermind. Blame the politicians in Europe for that.

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Amina Hays
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone should tell Rihanna that blinking and winking are two separate things.

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Steven Rundle
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We told them the wealth would "trickle down" and they actually believed it!

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Juana
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The irony is Marx was no gentleman. He wasted all his wife's fortune and mooched off others while he cheated on her. Class A douchebag.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

1) The war known as the Great War is WW1. 2) As it may be true that antisemitism did exist from a long time ago, it wasn't really used as a campaign folly until after the events of WW1. 3) The helmet and cross shown are of the German Empire, not the third reich. 4) Italy and Germany were allies for WW2, not WW1.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why are there so many communist memes? John's having a political-bitching field day. No offense John. Maybe offense John? I don't know. I'm not a Communist, but you're really whiny about how much you think they suck.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OJ: Oh! Did someone killed her? Police: We said she was dead, interesting you said killed...

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I dont think napoleon made it to moscow, but he made it further than hitler. Hitler could have learned a thing or too. They made the same mistakes. Napoleon lost bc of winter. Hitler lost bc of winter. PACK SOME F*****G WINTER CLOTHES

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Get your facts right, kaffir. Thats Wilhelm II, my King and Emperor. You talk about Wilhelm I. A**e.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's cool how they included Ukraine here. It wasn't independent at that time, but still that's very nice of you, thank you :D

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