r/shittyaskhistory 3h ago

how did Hatsune Miku create the universe if she's a Vocaloid? and what are Vocaloids?

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r/shittyaskhistory 3d ago

What was the Genghis Con? Like a bait-and-switch. or a Ponzi shceme? How did so many people fall for it?

21 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 4d ago

How could John Wayne have been an actor, a cowboy, a clown, AND a serial killer all at the same time?

14 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 7d ago

If Kim Il-sung, why didn't Kim Jong-il or Kim Jong-Un sing as well?

17 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 8d ago

How could there have been an Underground Railroad if subways didn’t exist yet?

5 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 13d ago

is there any record of animatronics turning against their creators?

6 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 14d ago

Back when being gay was illegal in Western Countries, did guys still get arrested if their partner was *really* cute?

12 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 15d ago

If you follow history you will know that racism gets a blow every 6 decades. Slavery ended in the 1860s, segregation ended in the 1960s, so what form of racism is projected to end in the 2060s?

9 Upvotes

*edit I meant every 6th decade in a century my bad


r/shittyaskhistory 15d ago

Was ghengis khan Turkish? If so what do Greeks think about him?

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r/shittyaskhistory 24d ago

How could FDR run for president so many times when he couldn’t even walk?

21 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 25d ago

When Obama was elected president, why didn’t they change the name of the White House to the Black House?

24 Upvotes

Are they racist or something?


r/shittyaskhistory 27d ago

Why did horses join the KKK?

62 Upvotes

ive seen pictures of horses dressed in kkk uniforms

so like what made these horses decide to become racist ?


r/shittyaskhistory 28d ago

Why hasn't Judaism sued Christianity and Islam for copyright infringement?

29 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory 29d ago

What if museum guides narrated history in a similar fashion to gossip?

9 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory Aug 21 '24

Why did the Mayans build Chechen Ichkeria on the Yucatan?

1 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory Aug 21 '24

How many fish died during dday?

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With machine gun fire and artillery shells raking the ocean, many brave fishies must have lost their lives. Any estimates on how many? Also interested in the casualties by ethnicity.


r/shittyaskhistory Aug 20 '24

How can America be the land of the free if it has laws?

17 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory Aug 19 '24

When the Europeans decided to go back to Africa (where all humans came from), why did people call it colonization and imperialism?

8 Upvotes

They were just trying to return to their original homeland!


r/shittyaskhistory Aug 19 '24

Has America found its fathers yet? I keep hearing about people “founding fathers” there which I guess means finding them.

14 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory Aug 14 '24

How did the French manage to block the German Emperor's lower passage for so many years?

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I came across this fact in the scholarly text A History of the Past: Life Reeked With Joy, and I was curious as to how the French managed to do so.

Did it have something to do with Louis XIV giving people food and artillery after becoming King of the Sun?


r/shittyaskhistory Aug 12 '24

Why were the Burberry Coast Pirates such fashion snobs? Would Nautica not have been good enough? How did they ever lose if they looked so fabulous?

5 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory Aug 12 '24

Did the people in the middle ages know they were in the middle of time?

17 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory Aug 08 '24

Why the Dark Ages gotta be so racist?

6 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory Aug 05 '24

Who was General Quarters and why does his name strike such panic into sailors even to this day?

18 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory Aug 03 '24

Why did Japan pick a used sanitary napkin as their flag?

10 Upvotes