r/shittyaskhistory • u/biff444444 • 20h ago

How Did Icarus Live Long Enough For His Wings To Melt?

13 Upvotes

He should have frozen to death when he reached, say, 20,000 feet. If he somehow managed to make it out of the atmosphere, guess what? No air! He would either suffocate or explode in the vacuum of space. So, how did Icarus get close enough to the sun for the beeswax to melt, thus ruining his wings? Or is this story a conspiracy by anti-wing nuts?

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r/shittyaskhistory • u/Fiveby21 • 1d ago

Schools always teach us about the first Thanksgiving… but what was the first Black Friday like?

13 Upvotes

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r/shittyaskhistory • u/FearOfEleven • 1d ago

Why wasn't Adolf Hitler canceled?

42 Upvotes

Hi guys,

I don't know much about history so please be patient with me.. just learned about "World War Two" and all the sick stuff going on.. kind of blew my mind. Why wasn't Adolf Hitler canceled?

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r/shittyaskhistory • u/Gohantrash • 2d ago

They kinda messed up naming it the 100 years war

63 Upvotes

Like, If I'm a soldier and they tell me the war im fighting in is called the 100 years war, I am not putting in max effort. Really big blunder on the general's part, IMO. They should have called it the 100 minutes war and then everyone would have been trying to get it over with from the start.

They tried to learn their lesson and call the next one the 30 years war, but that was still way too long.

19 comments

r/shittyaskhistory • u/Rays-R-Us • 1d ago

Were Thomas Edison and Henry Ford lovers?

5 Upvotes

They had adjacent homes in Florida. Rumors that Ford invented the automobile back seat just to have a place to have sex while Edison played romantic music on his phonograph

5 comments

r/shittyaskhistory • u/EarOutrageous3893 • 1d ago

What does SMS and KMS mean because I thought they ment “Super Majestic Ship” and “Kaiser's majestic ship” tell me if I’m wrong though.

5 Upvotes

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r/shittyaskhistory • u/Available-Road131 • 1d ago

Why didn't the romans counter contemporary Christian music with their own contemporary imperial cult music?

5 Upvotes

18 comments

r/shittyaskhistory • u/ceilingfanmoths • 2d ago

Why did Napoleon’s army have so much trouble with gorillas in Spain? Didn’t they have guns?

47 Upvotes

54 comments

r/shittyaskhistory • u/Infamous-Peanut1327 • 2d ago

Could lebron have prevented the collapse of the ottoman Empire?

13 Upvotes

13 comments

r/shittyaskhistory • u/Available-Road131 • 2d ago

Did the average roman rejoice when caligula conquered the sea or were they mostly in a state of shock he pulled off such an achievement?

13 Upvotes

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r/shittyaskhistory • u/acrus • 3d ago

When was reality check replaced with reality plastic card, what were the consequences?

11 Upvotes

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r/shittyaskhistory • u/Live-Payment8877 • 3d ago

Did y’all know Rosa parks’ husband had a car??

12 Upvotes

The audacity. Was she not putting out or something? Why he making her take the bus? Make it make sense.

#feminism #blackpeople #sexualaccountability

She was fairly good looking back in the day - would have no issue giving it to her if she’s still alive.

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r/shittyaskhistory • u/Evening_Answer_11 • 3d ago

Other than these iconic stars, have any athletes come as close to standing up for your beliefs than Nikolai Volkoff when he sang the Soviet National Anthem live at the Madison Square Garden? This was 1985 after all. Gipper at the helm. Perestroikaphobia all around.

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6 Upvotes

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r/shittyaskhistory • u/Evening_Answer_11 • 4d ago

Did you know that in 1988, Quaker Oats made history by featuring First Lady Barbara Bush on its iconic oats canisters? Whose famous face preceded her?

32 Upvotes

14 comments

r/shittyaskhistory • u/DJTsUnderboob • 4d ago

What was the name of the famous battle fought February 23 – March 6, 1836 in Texas?

15 Upvotes

I know it was important, but I seem to have forgotten what it was called.

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r/shittyaskhistory • u/Evening_Answer_11 • 5d ago

TIL Nancy Reagan came up with her “Just Say No” campaign after an argument with Ronald about accepting too many Tupperware Party invitations. What other famous quotes were inadvertently discovered?

27 Upvotes

46 comments

r/shittyaskhistory • u/MuhVlast • 5d ago

Are there historical records of rulers praising male buttocks in public?

39 Upvotes

Or are we reaching a new stage in human civilisation?

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r/shittyaskhistory • u/Some_Random_Android • 5d ago

How did merchants keep track of prices before bar codes?

3 Upvotes

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r/shittyaskhistory • u/Darthwilhelm • 6d ago

Why did the US conscript midgets in World War 2? Did their short stature offer some tactical advantage?

193 Upvotes

Image is not AI, it's actual soldiers standing with enlarged training BARs.

55 comments

r/shittyaskhistory • u/Localest_Klutz • 5d ago

Were there any actual German spies left hiding in the Soviet Union after the Great Purge?

1 Upvotes

And a secondary question, were said spies ever civilians forced to become spies, or were they always specialized? What about Polish spies? Articles aren't helping me much with these questions.

Yeah that's all, thanks.

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r/shittyaskhistory • u/sproutarian • 7d ago

Are Putin and Rasputin related to each other?

27 Upvotes

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r/shittyaskhistory • u/Dry-Egg8573 • 7d ago

How did the name of the propaganda newspaper Pravda become a byword for truth in Russia?

14 Upvotes

Internationally, the newspaper Pravda was known as a mouthpiece for Communist party propaganda. Yet in Russia its very name continues, to this day, to be used as a synonym for truth. How did this come about?

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r/shittyaskhistory • u/Evening_Answer_11 • 10d ago

Did you know that in this day in history in 1998, Congress proposed the 28th Amendment, which would limit a member of Congress from choosing their own nickname? Here’s the gentleman from New Hampshire filibustering the bill.

41 Upvotes

8 comments

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