There are quite a few people who mistakenly see history as a boring subject. Learning about events that happened years ago or people that are long gone may seem like a waste of time. But the truth is, it’s actually much more than memorizing a whole lot of dates, figures, and names. And it can be pretty entertaining too!

Just take a look at the History Memes subreddit that is purely dedicated to sharing jokes about the old days. More than 3.6M self-described history experts continuously share hilarious takes on our past and mix in a little fun to the facts.

We have selected some of the best posts from this online community to prove that history is not dull at all. Continue scrolling and let us know which ones you enjoyed most! Also, if you can’t get enough of funny memes about the subject, be sure to check out our previous posts right here, here, and here.

#1 History Meme

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#2 It Really Do Be Like That (Via: @russiansinlondon)

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#3 On October 26 2001, An Entire Country Decided To Wipe Their Ass With Their Own Constitution.

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#4 History Meme

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#5 Thanks For Clarifying

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#6 First Roman Meme

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#7 The Great War Was Just One Big Tragedy

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#8 I Love How The Horseshoe Crab Refuses To Evolve

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#9 After One Of Stalin’s Speeches People Were So Scared To Be The First One To Stop Clapping That The Applause Went On For 11 Minutes. Eventually The Director Of A Paper Factory Was The First One To Sit Down. That Night He Was Arrested And Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison

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#10 We Love Petty

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#11 It Do Be Like That

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#12 Big Brain Meme

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#13 Impressive

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#14 Gotta Respect The Ogs

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#15 History Meme

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#16 Who’s Ready To Lose A Few Limbs And Earn A Whole Penny?

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#17 Tanegashima Go Bang

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#18 More Like Months

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#19 Quit Horsing Around

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#20 You’ve Got My Support

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#21 Please Help Me

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#22 Smart Tactic

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#23 Father Of John Wick

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#24 Stock Market Hurts So Bad Rn

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#25 Two Cities Famous For History Of Slave Trade

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#26 He Is A Bit Stupid, Just A Bit…

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#27 I Am Confusion

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#28 History Meme

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#29 The More You Know

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#30 Goes For Almost Every Movie

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#31 Family Tree Goes Brrrrrrr

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#32 Come On Bruv

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#33 Here They Come!

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#34 Happy 93rd Anniversary Of The Character That Ruined Public Domain

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#35 Absolute Queen

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#36 Tea Merchants

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#37 Team Trees, Circa 1800s

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#38 Sounds Like A Donda Bar

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#39 A Good Thanksgiving Dinner Convo Starter For You All (Penicillin Wouldn’t Be Discovered Until 1928)

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#40 Deep Stuff

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#41 We Need More Chungus

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#42 Aliens Do Exist

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#43 We All Know The Deal

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#44 It’s Hsrd Being The King Of Cocaine. Only Buying Hippos Can Keep Pablo Happy

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#45 Africa

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#46 We Missed A Step, You Guys

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#47 I Aways Thought That Tumblr Invented That Word

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#48 Good Thinking

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#49 The Good Ole Days

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#50 I’m A Disappointment

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#51 Buddy Is Onto Something

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#52 I Hear Symphonies In My Head

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#53 Ethiopia Appreciation Post

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#54 What Happened To Your Country? It Got Wololoed

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#55 Just Two Kings Appreciating Each Other

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#56 I Still Do This

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#57 It All Makes Sense Now

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#58 I Thought Krakens Were Real Though

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#59 Sadge

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#60 History Meme

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#61 Let People Enjoy What’s Enjoyable Jeeze

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#62 Inspired By A Different Post Made By U/Modshave2muchpower

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#63 I Came, I Saw, I Got Misquoted

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#64 It Has Really Accelerated Since Industrial Period

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#65 Spoiler Alert: He Gets Eaten By A Goddess’ Private Part

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#66 Most Of Them Are Wholesome Af

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#67 Papa Elon Got Nothing On Musa

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#68 How Original

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#69 Who’s Down?

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#70 Ouch That One Hurts

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#71 @kairoshq Is The Best Account You’re Not Following!

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#72 You Know What Time It Is

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#73 He Would’ve Loved Spotify Wrapped

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#74 A Early Milestone For Any History Buff

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#75 Epic Chernobyl Meme

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#76 Remember Kids, If A Woman With A Mask Walks UPS To You In A Dark Alley And Asks If She’s Pretty, Say “Maybe” And Run!

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#77 It’s Legacy Lives On Through Our Glorious Memeing

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#78 Cato Was Not Expecting That. More Context In The Comments

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#79 Stumped Em

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#80 It Do Be Like That

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#81 Me So Smart

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#82 Comment Which One You Are

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#83 Ulysses Has No Time For This White Supremacist Bullshit

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#84 You Better Not Complain About More Conquests.

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#85 The Day I Discovered What A Real Warhammer Looked Like, My Disappointment Was Immeasurable And My Day Was Ruined

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#86 Was Listening To Bush’s Post 9/11 Speech And Though Of This

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#87 Playing The Long Game…

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#88 No, Just Because A Staggering Amount Of Soviets Died Does Not Mean They Did The Most To Defeat Nazi Germany. With That Said, The Soviet Union Truly Was The Primary Cause For Nazi Germany’s Defeat And Claiming Otherwise Is Foolishness

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#89 Marshall Zhukov Was Introduced To Coke By Eisenhower After Ww2, The Man Then Asked For Them To Be Secretly Shipped Into The Soviet Union.

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#90 Too Much Undeserved Abuse Given To The French

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#91 In September Of 1944, 9 U.s Pilots Ejected Out Of Their Planes Onto The Japanese Island Of Chichi Jima. 8 Of Them Were Captured, Executed, And Ritually Cannibalized By Japanese Soldiers. The Sole Survivor, George H.w Bush, Landed Far Away From The Island In The Water, And Was Later Rescued

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#92 Also, During The French Revolution, Spectators Could Buy Souvenirs, Read A Program Listing The Names Of The Victims, Or Even Grab A Quick Bite To Eat At A Nearby Restaurant Called “Cabaret De La Guillotine”

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#93 He Was Also The Last Republican Elected President Without Winning The South

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#94 Loneeeely, I’m Mr Lonelyyyyy

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#95 For The Glory Of Rome

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#96 I Know When I’m Lost, Time To Grind Again

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#97 Neutral Swiss

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#98 But Chernoooooobyl

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#99 Should He Be Remembered Positively Or Negatively?

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#100 Oh Canada

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#101 Never Get Obsessive And Go Down Wikipedia Rabbit Holes

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#102 Maybe Casear Was A Bad Guy

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#103 What The F……..

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#104 Who Will Win

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#105 Not A Conflict You Expect

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#106 Shoutout To Portugal

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#107 I’m Scared

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#108 I Wish They Did

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#109 “Importing”

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#110 Need Some God

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#111 Don’t At Me

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#112 Yikes

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#113 Somebody Wanna Tell Him?

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#114 Ahh S**t Here We Go Again

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#115 You Guys

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#116 About Time

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#117 Kentucky Please Excuse Yourself

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#118 That Shit Heat

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#119 What A King

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#120 Pure Power

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#121 Booo!

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#122 Einstein Was Offered The Presidency Of Israel In 1952, But Turned It Down, Stating: “I Am Deeply Moved By The Offer From Our State Of Israel, And At Once Saddened And Ashamed That I Cannot Accept It.”

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#123 “Oh Yeah We Are Totally A Serious Company With A Bunch Of Employees!” (More Context In Comments)

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#124 I Guess You Could Call The Battle Of Messines…a Banger

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#125 Guilty Pleasure

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#126 Temper, Temper

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#127 The Number Of Impaled Ottoman Soldiers Has Really Spiked

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#128 History Meme

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#129 Saucy Boi

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#130 The Csx 8888 Inccident Was A Time When A Train Was Driving With No Driver And One Police Officer Legit Tried To Soot At It

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