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We typically learn about history through school textbooks or documentaries. While those are excellent sources, some argue that absorbing information that way can become uninteresting. 

In today’s digital world, memes have also become a fun, lighthearted way for people to absorb information, or, in this case, snippets of significant past events. Here are some examples, courtesy of the Federal Enforced Memes Instagram account.  

If you found history classes a bit boring, these images should spark some interest. Be sure to upvote those that you found most informative.

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Funny memes about historical facts showing a carved runestone depicting a Viking reenactor taking down a drone.

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    Funny memes using Harry Potter characters to explain historical facts about the Anglo-Portuguese alliance in WWI.

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    Parchment counts.

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    Funny memes featuring polar bears poking out of snow tunnels to illustrate French and German trench warfare historical facts.

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    Let's play a soccer match!

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    Funny history meme about using time travel to save ancient manuscripts and historical facts.

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    Too late, the British Museum have beaten you to it.

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    Funny memes about historical facts featuring an ancient manuscript illustrating the use of Greek Fire in naval warfare.

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    Funny memes showing how English and French kings name their royal successors

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    Don't forget George, William, Richard, Charles, James, John and Stephen.

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    Chessboard filled with knight pieces illustrating funny memes that test historical facts about Mongol cavalry.

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    A comparison of getting lost in modern times versus ancient Rome, featured in funny memes about historical facts.

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    A funny history meme comparing modern sibling rivalries with royal succession battles in the Ottoman Empire.

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    Funny memes comparing navy strategies of the Royal Navy, French Navy, and Spanish Navy during historical sea battles.

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    CAPTCHA verification parody with a sweating Soviet soldier as part of funny memes about historical facts.

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    Simo Häyha aka the white d***h

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    Funny meme featuring a cat as Julius Caesar talking to a pirate dog to teach funny historical facts.

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    Julius Caesar. Hint: it did not end well for the pirates

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    Funny memes showing a question about owning an elephant paired with Hannibal crossing the Alps

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    A cat meme about WWII Italian prisoners of war climbing Mount Kenya for fun

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    Funny memes contrasting naming a child after a fictional character versus naming them after a Roman Emperor.

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    Aurelian is using his headset...for what?

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    Funny memes comparing Pokemon 1999 tree attack to Roman soldiers in Teutoburg Forest 9 AD.

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    Funny memes depicting Alexander the Great talking to Diogenes about ancient historical facts.

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    Funny history meme about a soldier worrying about locking the gate in Constantinople 1453.

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    You didn't, dude! Not cool! 😡😭

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    Funny memes about historical facts showing a robot overlaid with the UK flag demanding tea plants.

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    Funny memes about historical facts featuring a Wojak and Chad time machine comparison with an Egyptian pharaoh.

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    Funny memes about historical facts showing an ancient fresco alongside a modern Chad meme character.

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    Funny memes highlighting historical facts about the different starting ages of conquests for Alexander and Caesar.

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    Funny historical facts meme comparing powerful European monarchs to kings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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    Funny meme about the fall of Constantinople using Doge to represent historical facts.

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    #25

    Funny meme depicting the historical fact of a WWII Dutch minesweeper disguised as an island with The Trickster character.

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    Funny memes about sacred geese warning Romans about invading Gauls to make historical facts easier to remember.

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    Funny meme comparing Karl XII of Sweden at age 18 to a timid teenager using doge characters to depict historical facts.

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    A funny history meme about the Red Baron choosing red paint for his triplane instead of camouflage.

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    Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen

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    A funny history meme showing a cycle of competent and awful kings ruling medieval European kingdoms.

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    American politics 2020-2026

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    Funny memes comparing fictional pirates to real historical pirates

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    Funny memes depicting the US acquiring land in 1846 with a plastic bag meme

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    Funny memes about the Roman Empire map featuring Emperor Cheems history joke

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    Funny memes about Aztec historical facts showing doge choosing a location to build Tenochtitlan.

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    Funny meme comparing modern grandparents with medieval Byzantine emperors to make historical facts easier.

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    Funny meme comparing modern fan culture to ancient Roman gladiator sweat collecting to learn historical facts.

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    Funny memes illustrating historical facts about ancient Greek philosopher Plato as a muscular Chad wrestler.

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    Funny memes showing a nomad character and a horse illustrating historical facts humorously.

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    #38

    Funny meme comparing Imperial legions demanding higher pay to Caesar’s loyal legions in ancient history.

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    Funny memes about historical facts comparing a 3D grass optical illusion to the French Maginot Line map.

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    Germans attacking France via Belgium. So good they did it twice.

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    Funny memes displaying a map of France and the German Empire to explain historical facts about European conflicts.

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    Doge funny memes contrasting medieval wars in movies versus realistic castle sieges in history.

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    Funny historical facts meme about Roland the Farter receiving land from King Henry II.

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    Best job ever! 😂

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    Expanding brain funny memes comparing war strategy historical facts from USA, Germany, USSR, and France.

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    Squid Game funny memes featuring Hannibal Barca fighting Romans to teach historical facts.

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    Funny meme about a historical fact involving Emperor Gallienus tricking a Roman merchant with a chicken in the arena.

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    Funny meme comparing the Holy Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire using Wojak and Chad character templates.

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    Funny memes illustrating medieval state titles with animals like whales and dolphins

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    Historical facts represented in funny memes about Virginia territory shrinking over time.

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    Funny memes contrasting modern haircut regret with Harald Fairhair historical facts.

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    Funny meme showing Prince Henry looking at the ocean to explain Portugal exploration and historical facts.

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    Expanding brain meme showing historical facts about military war songs in Finland, the US, and France.

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    Funny meme about historical facts showing Polish military units using a bear as a mascot.

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    Wojtek, his story is absolutely amazing

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    #53

    Funny history meme illustrating a Roman diplomat meeting Hellenistic rulers with the same face.

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    #54

    Historical facts meme comparing modern warfare troop numbers with expensive medieval knights.

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    #55

    Funny memes showing historical facts about insane monarchs Caligula and Charles VI.

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    Funny memes with a Google search history showing humor about historical facts and Constantinople.

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    A grid of funny memes depicting world geopolitics in the 1990s using popular internet reaction images.

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    Funny historical meme comparing the recruitment methods of the Greek, Persian, and Roman armies.

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    Funny meme comparing modern ancient history enthusiasts playing video games to Catherine the Great.

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    SpongeBob comic panels illustrating historical facts about European empires over time

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    Funny memes about Roman historical facts involving Little Caesars pizza brand confusion

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    Funny memes with SpongeBob characters representing the leaders of the Entente and Central Powers in historical facts.

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    Historical facts meme contrasting modern historians with ancient historians inventing troop numbers.

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    Funny meme listing historical figures like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar with historical facts about their legacies.

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    And has a salad named after him

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    #65

    A funny history meme contrasting Julius Caesar in Anatolia with his famous quote against his time in Egypt.

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    #66

    A funny history meme depicting a wordplay pun on Ottomans soldiers versus ottoman furniture.

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    Funny memes comparing popes during the First and Sixth Crusades

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    Historical facts humorized in funny memes showing a young soldier drafted into the Korean War.

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    Funny memes depicting a Scottish bagpiper during D-Day landings as a historical fact.

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    Funny history meme contrasting the Punic Wars with modern peace treaties for easy historical facts learning.

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    Funny history meme explaining Bluetooth origins with King Harald vs modern connectivity issues.

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    Illustration of Pharaoh Seti II in funny memes showing his servants covered in honey to attract flies.

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    Funny memes about WWI European monarchs referencing Queen Victoria and historical facts.

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    Funny historical meme contrasting general tactics against nomads with Alexander the Great.

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    Wojak funny memes depicting the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 between Germany and France.

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