r/shittyaskhistory • • Dec 07 '25

Why didn't the curved barrel become more popular?

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r/shittyaskhistory • • Dec 19 '25 Popcorn

What would be the Most Powerful country in each century from the beginning of civilization to the present day?

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1.8k Upvotes

I mean from Egypt to Rome to America or something like that


r/shittyaskhistory • • Dec 04 '25

Why did the US train the Germans and Japanese for WWII?

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1.7k Upvotes

Japanese and German military attaches observing US military training, August 1939


r/shittyaskhistory • • May 29 '26

In ancient Roman latrines they wiped with communal sponges on a stick, rinsed it in the flowing latrine, and put it back in a bucket of vinegar. How common were infections/venereal diseases?

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r/shittyaskhistory • • Dec 30 '25

What if the Holy See became a ceremonial monarchy for the European Union?

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r/shittyaskhistory • • Jul 16 '25

Why did Jeffery Epstien kill himself when he had no clients? Was he stupid?

880 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • Jun 07 '16

Of course "No means no", but should the people of Nanking maybe not dressed that way?

726 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • Sep 25 '25

Why did Roman soldiers only buy salt with their money?

640 Upvotes

So "salary" apparently comes from "sal", meaning salt, and is from the Roman period. Why did the Roman soldiers just buy salt with their money? How did they get everything else?


r/shittyaskhistory • • Jan 15 '26

Why did Germany siege Leningrad? Why didn't they just take it?

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r/shittyaskhistory • • Aug 21 '17

Why was communist Russia "so viet," while nam was just plain "viet"? Was it less viet?

628 Upvotes

If it were more viet, would it have been called Sovietnam?


r/shittyaskhistory • • Dec 16 '25

If Christ was a great carpenter ( he was god so he must have been a great one), why there isn’t a surviving piece of furniture he made? Please don’t tell me he was working for a shit company like Ikea.

607 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • Jun 02 '15

What caused the split between the Shia and Sunni Labeoufs?

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r/shittyaskhistory • • Jul 12 '26

Why was this Mongol Successor Khanate so homophobic?

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550 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • Oct 11 '25

Why did Alexander leave so much of the world unconquered? Was he stupid?

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547 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • Nov 25 '25

Would Stalin have been as effective without his moustache?

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515 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • Dec 05 '25

Why did the Bob Semple tank terrify it's enemies?

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508 Upvotes

When New Zealand was threatened with invasion from Japan, they produced the Bob Semple tank from corrugated iron and 6 Bren guns.

To this threat, Japan had no response, and from that moment on their fate was sealed.

What made this tank one of the most feared weapons of WWII?


r/shittyaskhistory • • Oct 03 '25

With Mohammed being the most common name on earth, how did God know he was talking to the right guy?

471 Upvotes

Especially since he didn't have a picture of him.


r/shittyaskhistory • • Dec 06 '25

What was Cleopatra's secret to reincarnation?

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464 Upvotes

Did she sing "Baby One More Time" to tell her followers she's back?

And why didn't she cover "Walk Like an Egyptian"?


r/shittyaskhistory • • Jan 05 '26

Was Mikhail Gorbachev secretly a Korean irredentist?

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457 Upvotes

Seriously why does he just have a mark of the Empire of Korea on his head like that? I know many Empire of Korea fanatics and none of them have went as far as Gorbachev have in this, so he is clearly a Korean irredentist. But what is the reason as to why the last leader of the Soviet Union was secretly pro-Empire of Korea?


r/shittyaskhistory • • Feb 15 '17

Why are we being lied to?

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439 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • Mar 20 '21

If Leninism and McCarthyism aren't anti-semetic ideologies then why did they call out jews in their hit 1968 single "Hey Jude"?

429 Upvotes

Why couldn't they just let it be?


r/shittyaskhistory • • Jul 17 '25

Why didn't Lincoln just turn his head and dodge the bullet like a future Republican president did?

369 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • Jul 11 '26

If Nicholas Tesla had won the whole AC/DC war of the late 1800s, would people, especially douche bags, be driving Edison cyber trucks today?

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r/shittyaskhistory • • Feb 22 '17

In Germany, it is illegal to heil Hitler. Why did the German police not arrest all the Nazis for heiling Hitler in WW2, ending WW2 much faster?

365 Upvotes

r/shittyaskhistory • • May 02 '26

Why were none of these cemetaries damaged on D-Day?

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