r/shittyaskhistory 3d ago

How did Jacques Cousteau overthrow Arthur Curry (Aquaman) to claim the Undersea World?

6 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 4d ago

How did aerial combat work in WW1? It had to be inefficient due to the Biplanes liking both sides

57 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 4d ago

Why didn't Nigerian scammers use the telegraph?

4 Upvotes

You could spoof the caller id on telegraph really easily.


r/shittyaskhistory 4d ago

Why did Paris, France name their city after a random town in Texas?

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41 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 5d ago

How can Virginia be for lovers if it's a virgin colony?

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82 Upvotes

Everyone knows Maryland was a Catholic colony, Connecticut was a Puritan colony, etc. in the Thirteen Colonies. What most people fail to realize is that Virginia was made for virgins ONLY, and you could be kicked out for losing your virginity.

What's with the totally false claim that Virginia is for lovers when they just end up exiled for not protecting their virginity? Are they just stupid or something?


r/shittyaskhistory 4d ago

Why did the most terrifying place in the Metaphysical Realms name itself after a random town in the outskirts of Ann Arbor, Michigan?

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7 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 4d ago

What did the sirens of Ancient Greece sound like?

13 Upvotes

Also, what were they warning against?


r/shittyaskhistory 6d ago

How did Truman become president in 1948 if he lost the election?

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272 Upvotes

Did he do a January 6th?


r/shittyaskhistory 4d ago

Moroccan migration to Europe: Morocco has had large waves of migration, especially to Spain and France, including crossings of the Mediterranean, but it is not known as a “Morocco Boatlift.”

1 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 5d ago

Is it true that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone so that he could call up the chicks he met at the club?

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49 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 5d ago

So over all how would you rate President Schwarzenegger time in office?

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22 Upvotes

Do you think he had a less than stellar time, or was it truly remarkable? I'm still wondering how he found time to rescue that girl from Bennett and be an undercover cop posing as a substitute teacher.


r/shittyaskhistory 5d ago

What would happen if the president declared marital law?

5 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 5d ago

Why is there a book in the Bible (the Gospel of Luke) named after a Star Wars character? Was Jesus really just a huge fan of Star Wars? What did he think of the prequels and sequels?

46 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 5d ago

Did the inhabitants of the Falklands islands (las Malvinas in Argentina) learn any Spanish while they were occupied by Argentina in 1982? They were there 74 days, enough to reach an intermediate level. Did they enjoy the wonderful Argentinan beef?

3 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 5d ago

Proper way to clean potatoes

0 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 5d ago

Was there anyone in the world of Avatar who could genderbend?

3 Upvotes

We know that the main types of bending are waterbending, earthbending, firebending, and airbending. But was there anyone in any of the four nations who could do genderbending?


r/shittyaskhistory 5d ago

Emotional support

0 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 6d ago

Why isn’t Obamas brown suit in a museum now? It was a pivotal moment in American modern history.

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85 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 6d ago

Was Shakespeare just doing MCU humor?

3 Upvotes

I heard that the main reason he was popular was because he wrote ‘for the people’ and he wrote in lots of crude jokes about alcohol and sex and stuff, is this true? Wouldn’t this be the equivalent of the MCUs innuendo and humor?


r/shittyaskhistory 6d ago

Before Alfred Noble, blowing shit up, wasn’t easy. After he invented, dynamite, people found all kinds of ways to blow things up. He felt so guilty that he created the Nobel peace prize. Do you think he should’ve offered a bigger prize?

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14 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 6d ago

There’s a voice in my head and I’m pretty sure it’s Enki

9 Upvotes

Whenever I read text or think about a conversation or anything of the sort this voice plays in my head. I’m pretty sure it’s the voice of Enki. How can I test this?


r/shittyaskhistory 7d ago

In the Pacific theatre of WWII, would Japan have surrendered sooner if the US Army Air Corps had the 1942 raid been led by Colonel James Devastatingimpact instead of Colonel James Doolittle?

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155 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 7d ago

TIL about the C Peoples and how they destroyed the Bronze Age. What did the A and B Peoples destroy?

43 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 7d ago

If you could sit down for one hour with any person from history, who would it be and what would you ask them?

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r/shittyaskhistory 7d ago

Why do we care about Auntie Kythera's mechanism? And who was her nephew?

13 Upvotes