r/shittyaskhistory • • Jan 25 '26

No AI Slop.

45 Upvotes

Violations will result in imitate permaban with no appeal.


r/shittyaskhistory • • 10h ago

"One nation under God" was added to the pledge to spite the Commies, because they weren't into worshipping deities much. Is it a happy coincidence the US didn't know the Soviets also don't eat babies and don't jump off a cliff?

15 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • 11h ago

In what famous speech did John F. Kennedy say “ask not what your country can do for you, unless you come forward with a stack of Benjamin’s?”

14 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • 1h ago

Who is the most famous village idiot in history ever?

• Upvotes

Doing a report for school, pls help!


r/shittyaskhistory • • 9h ago

How is Pope Leo XIV related to King Louis XIV? And why did prisoners name their homemade knives after them?

6 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • 9h ago

Why do people still believe Cortes burned his boats on purpose?

2 Upvotes

When Hernan Cortes burned his boats the fire started as an accident while he was lighting up a cigar. When he realized the fire was too big to put out he jumped off and shouted, “Heck yeah! We’re gonna take this island!”


r/shittyaskhistory • • 1d ago

On February 4, 1998, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was hit in the face with a cream pie in Brussels, Belgium. How did his security team allow this to happen? Did Gates develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result? Did the incident fundamentally change his personality?

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60 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • 1d ago

Did Augustus or Julius Caesar talk with a stereotypical Italian accent?

17 Upvotes

Did they do the hand motions too


r/shittyaskhistory • • 1d ago

Did homing pigeons have a comparable success rate to Amazon, UPS, and FedEx when it came to delivery? If there were issues, who would one call to troubleshoot? Was failed delivery placed on the “system” or the deliverer? How did they confirm delivery?

9 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • 1d ago

What year were farts legalized and what was the first place to legalized them?

6 Upvotes

It must have been tuff before it was legal either fart illegally or hold it in.


r/shittyaskhistory • • 1d ago

What year did Saddam Hussein say there was going to be the “Mother-in-law of All Battles?”

18 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • 2d ago

Do you think that the Whig Party would’ve survived if they weren’t called “Whig?”

6 Upvotes

They could have used any, and I mean pretty much ANY name. Think of any pro sports teams names. ALL of those were available back then. You could have “the honorable Congressman Jim Davis, Seahawks.” Or “live tonight we have the Buccaneers National Convention.”

99% of all business failures come from poor branding.


r/shittyaskhistory • • 1d ago

Why Mao Tse Tung is so famous if he was fat, ugly, bald and last but not least, a communist?

0 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • 2d ago

Has anyone ever tried to do a school shooting with a nerf gun?

5 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • 2d ago

Were Lewis and Clark dating?

0 Upvotes

In any doctrines of their travels, they barely mention any sort of relationships between the two of them, and the only mentions of Sacajawea were regarding her expertise to navigate throughout the new Louisiana land. So, just hypothetically, I was wondering if there was any evidence of them having any relations past just explorers on a journey together, and whether or not Sacajawea was necessarily like a homewrecker, and even how far those relations went. ​


r/shittyaskhistory • • 3d ago

What was the origin of the feud between fig Newtons and choco Leibniz?

9 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • 2d ago

Why didn’t Barack Hussein Obama changed his name to a more western one like Barry Hugh Obrien? Was it very expensive in that time to legally change a person’s name? Or did he want to sound exotic?

0 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • 3d ago

Was The War on Terror basically Fight Club for the West and the Islamic World?

1 Upvotes

Per the community rules, all human suffering discussed below has been a tragedy. No bigotry intended in this post.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, a general malaise spread among the educated of the new globalized world. In the West, this manifested in media such as Fight Club, The Matrix, and Office Space. In the Islamic World, did this feeling metastasize into Al-Qaeda? Privileged Osama looks for an existential struggle in a “post-scarcity” world, just like Tyler, Neo, and the Office Space guy.

In fact, 9/11 and the War on Terror are a direct result of US hegemony in the 90s. Al-Qaeda, 9/11, and the War on Terror captured that malaise in the West and the Islamic World, and it generated massive amounts of disgruntled fighters on both sides ready to unleash this malaise now focused into an orgy of slaughter. Here we are 25 years later and the world has fundamentally shifted and operates on new principles. Right?

Was the War on Terror basically Fight Club led by an educated global middle class that developed during the 90s that needed an existential struggle after their material success left them feeling soulless?


r/shittyaskhistory • • 3d ago

Why did MLK decide to manufacturer his boots in England, and why don't the history books talk about the time he spent as cobbler?

2 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • 4d ago

The American Prohabition

1 Upvotes

Why were Americans back then so dumb they voted for Prohabition and in turn gave us the Federal income tax? Are they stupid?


r/shittyaskhistory • • 5d ago

Did Ichabod Crane get his name from having a hot bod?

7 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • 5d ago

Kenyan Ex-President Daniel arap Moi and French News

1 Upvotes

If he was ever in the French Newspapers when he became president, did french people think the newspapers had a typo for a man named Daniel Arap?


r/shittyaskhistory • • 5d ago

Was there an official Lara Croft Nude Code for the original Tomb Raider?

16 Upvotes

In the late 1990s seeing Laras blocky sexy bits on the Playstation was my El Dorado. Was it all in vain?


r/shittyaskhistory • • 5d ago

Was Jesus a cuck?

7 Upvotes

I like Mr. Christ as much as anyone, he’s cool and really seems like he knows his shit, but from what I’ve learned in school he doesn’t seem ‘normal’ you know?

Was Jesus a cuck? If so, how often would he watch? How do we know?


r/shittyaskhistory • • 6d ago

Why did Pontius invent Pilates? Could he already suspect that a huge cross isn’t exactly the funniest apparatus for working out?

49 Upvotes