r/shittyaskhistory Jan 25 '26

No AI Slop.

41 Upvotes

Violations will result in imitate permaban with no appeal.


r/shittyaskhistory 2h ago

Why did Martin Luther King Jr die for our sins?

2 Upvotes

like didn’t he get 3 wishes from the fish he was walking to keep him aliv?


r/shittyaskhistory 9h ago

What would you define as Aaron Burr’s fatal flaw and how would you define his personality?

3 Upvotes

I am writing a musical about Aaron Burr, and I want to hear your thoughts on how you would characterize his personality and what his fatal flaw was. Please let me know what you guys think.


r/shittyaskhistory 8h ago

9/11 was clearly caused by Louis Guiabern throwing a Spear at the Twin Towers. Why do we still blame Osama Bin Laden for it?

2 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 1d ago

...so I said Akkadian, more like Babylonian

23 Upvotes

Amorite?


r/shittyaskhistory 1d ago

I watched this movie about D-Day in WWII but it made no sense at all...

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18 Upvotes

It is because Canadians are too nice to show all the guns and bloodshed?


r/shittyaskhistory 21h ago

Why did Hollywood create a whole movie genre based on the guy in the old Marlboro commercials?

4 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 1d ago

What are?

6 Upvotes

Is me are?


r/shittyaskhistory 1d ago

How did St Patrick drive the snakes out of Ireland? Where did they go? How did PETA feel about this?

15 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 1d ago

Why did we domesticate horses instead of just continuing to hunt them?

6 Upvotes

Were they just too cute?


r/shittyaskhistory 2d ago

Why are people so against AI these days, when in 2000, the US even tried to elect Al Gore as president? What did he do to deserve so much hate?

61 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 2d ago

What was so scandalous about teapots and their domes that it created a scandal in the 1920s?

15 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 2d ago

Did Aliens write the Bible?

9 Upvotes

I mean they built Stonehenge, the Pyramids, great wall in china why not bible?


r/shittyaskhistory 2d ago

When I was a kid there were 9 planets, now there are 8. Did space aliens destroy one?

10 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 3d ago

Did Hannibal's elephant adventures in Italy influence him with food pairings? Particularly Chianti and colleagues?

12 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 3d ago

Are the Anglo-Ashanti wars a better example a of successful resistance by a sub-Saharan African kingdom against the British Empire, as opposed to the Anglo-Zulu wars? If so why is there so little media or known lore about the conflicts?

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8 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 3d ago

What do you think are the greatest Leadership failures in History?

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3 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 3d ago

How come Shakespeare never wrote any post-credit scenes for his plays?

25 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 3d ago

Is the Parthenon actually a pyramid?

3 Upvotes

Is the Parthenon actually a pyramid?! https://youtu.be/oCFMEvAWAMU


r/shittyaskhistory 4d ago

Why nobody ever has tried to become the candidate of both the Republican and Democrat party in the same election year for president, and only face the Green Party and all those cameo parties? It would be a slam dunk.

39 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 3d ago

Why is the Federal Reserve so obsessed with Jackson’s Hole?

16 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 4d ago

Why was there such a huge time gap in Clinton serving as the 4th vice president of the United State and finally becoming the 42nd president of the United States?

20 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 3d ago

Did those poor fellas living in ancient bc times ever get confused on New Year’s Day, and accidentally add a year?

0 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 5d ago

Why havent subsequent whistleblowers used codenames that are porn film titles like Mark Felt aka Deep Throat?

16 Upvotes

It could be a tradition like the press labeling scandals with the suffix -Gate. For example Edward Snowden would go by the alias "Dogfart"


r/shittyaskhistory 5d ago

Was the Duke of Wellington and Britain victorious over France in the war of the seventh coalition because they could use their naval power advantage once Napoleon flooded that bathroom in Belgium?

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4 Upvotes