It’s no secret that humor helps us learn and remember things better—if you’re laughing and having fun, chances are that a fact will stick that much harder in your mind. And we find that one of the best formats for this is creating memes. If you’ve ever thought that history was a dull subject, you might just change your mind at the end of this article.
The r/HistoryMemes subreddit is a sprawling online community of millions of history lovers who create, share, and comment on a very wide range of memes about the past. We’ve collected some of the freshest pics to pique your interest, Pandas, so scroll down, enjoy, and we hope you’re taking notes because this will be on the test.
#1 I Just Hope The Man She Replaced Ended Up Working As *her* Maid
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#2 Washington Washingdogs
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#3 Read A Fricking Book For Once!
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#4 Adams Is Critically Underrated
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#5 This Is Why I Failed Chemistry
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#6 Insane To Think Charles Darwin And Steve Irwin Both Owned The Same Turtoise
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#7 Same Thing For The Court Dwarfs
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#8 Fly Pig Fly!
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#9 Had Me At 360 No Scope
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#10 How About Another 4 Years Of Delays?
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#11 The Race Was Held At 3:00pm On A Sweltering 32-Degree Celsius Day, And Took The Runners Over Dusty, Unpaved Roads. James Sullivan, The Chief Organiser Of The St Louis Olympics, Was Interested In ‘Purposeful Dehydration’ — An Ill-Advised Area Of Scientific Research At The Turn Of The Century — And Ensured There Was Only One Water Station On The Entire Course. Fourteen Kilometres From The Finish Line, American Runner Thomas Hicks Was In Agony. He Was Fading Fast From The Dust And Heat, And Tried To Lie Down On The Road. Hicks’ Trainers, Who Also Believed That Water Diminished An Athlete’s Performance, Gave Him Small Sips Of A Toxic Cocktail Which Included Strychnine (Rat Poison) To Stimulate His Nervous System. High On Rat Poison Which Was Mixed With An Egg White And Brandy, The 28-Year-Old Staggered Along For The Rest Of The Course While Hallucinating
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#12 Worlds Oldest Complaint
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#13 Everybody Needs Somebody
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#14 Actually Fuming At All The History Books I Could Have Read Smh
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#15 The Most Fantasized People In History
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#16 The Struggles Of Anyone Doing Ancient History
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#17 Dod Funding Is The Best Kind Of Funding
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#18 Poor Germany
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#19 Henry Avery Did Not Have The Most Satisfying Ending To His Plotline
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#20 She Wasn’t That Bad But She Could Also Have Been Better
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#21 Fine, I’ll Do It Myself
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#22 Canadian History Be Like
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#23 What A Wonderful Time To Be Alive!
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#24 Have We Men Changed In 110 Years?
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#25 Leave, We Don’t Want You Anymore, Go Starve On The Desert
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#26 They Were Blamed For Everything From Economic Hardship To War And Plague
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#27 Now The Bad Thing Would Be If You Were A Christian And The Secret Trap Door Opened
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#28 Supposedly, When John Hetherington Invented The Top Hat And Wore It In Public For The First Time, It Caused People To Faint From Shock And A Riot Broke Out. It’s Debatable Whether Or Not This Actually Happened, But I Want To Believe
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#29 Why??
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#30 Fortunately, We Have Archeology, But It Will Never Be The Same
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#31 Mediteranean Banter
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#32 Battle Of Dentists’ Tooths
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#33 Just Don’t Fall Into A Body Of Water Or Get Stuck In Mud And You’ll Be Fine
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#34 I Present You, Horse
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#35 Some Names Were More Creative Than Others
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#36 They Just Happened To Be Really Good At Colonising
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