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We know you love history, pandas, and memes—so do we! That’s why we regularly scour the internet for the most brilliant history memes to brighten your day and maybe even teach you something new. Over the years, we’ve shared so many that we thought it was time to create a hall of fame. This post is a throwback to celebrate the best of the best! Scroll through, enjoy the laughs, and don’t forget to upvote your favorites to crown the ultimate champions!
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History Ain’t Pretty
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When Your Joke Backfires And You Accidentally Advance Women’s Rights
There’s probably no more entertaining way to learn history than through memes and engaging online content. Let’s be honest—it’s far more captivating than textbooks. To explore why history feels exciting everywhere but the classroom, Bored Panda reached out to Angel Lawson, a history postgraduate student at the University of Birmingham and content creator on Instagram and TikTok.
“I find that history curriculums, especially in the UK, aren’t designed to make you love learning, and that definitely translates into how history is taught in UK schools,” Angel told us. “The majority of history curriculums focus on the last three hundred years and are so broad that you never get to explore the ‘nitty-gritty’ facts that might interest a wider range of people.”
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I See What U Did There
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It All Makes Sense Now
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Impressive
Cindi Antrobus 1 month ago
Don’t tell a girl she can’t do it because that just makes her prove you wrong
Angel explained that the pressure to achieve good grades is also a factor. “The goal of needing to get a grade in GCSE and A-Level by learning broad facts is why many people don’t find history interesting. Regurgitating the same topics over and over again—like Weimar Germany or the Industrial Revolution—isn’t something most people particularly enjoy.”
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Washington Washingdogs
#8
But Jesus Spoke English.... It Is Right There In The Bible
Kit Black 1 month ago
Seriously, they're crazy... had a neighbor once tell me with absolute righteous indignation that everything came straight from the original bible, in the original English... when I pointed out that the bible wasn't originally in english, she told me that it absolutely was because they had the original bible - in the original English... at Oral Roberts University
Lee Gilliland 1 month ago
I remember getting a whole bunch of Hail Marys because I insisted Christ wasn't white ( Hail Mars are things you ave to say as a punishment if you're Catholic).
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BeesEelsAndPups 1 month ago
I am personally an atheist from a Jewish family, but I grew up in a majority Catholic country. This was not my experience with the Catholic clergymen that I knew. Perhaps that is due to the prominence of Liberation Theology in my country.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 month ago
yeah I thought the same this as a kid too, because when I was 9 I was looking at the maps at the back of the bibles we had, and asked my grandmother if Jesus was actually white like in all my picture bibles, because based on where he was born, he probably wasn't white
Michael Sauerwein 1 month ago
I have had similar discussions with someone in my wife's family. They thought Christianity was started by Jesus, then Henry VIII and James I. And Catholics are not Christians, apparently.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 month ago
I would argue that Evangelicals are the least Christian group out there. Many of them preach ideas which were directly contradictory to Jesus' own teachings. "Blessed are the hungry" became "protect what's mine and to hell with everyone else". "I was a stranger and you invited me in" became "keep out all the foreigners". "Love your enemy" became "kill anyone who disagrees with you".
Michael Sauerwein 1 month ago (edited)
Yes, I think Jesus had a name for those kinds of people: hypocrites.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 month ago (edited)
my mom says Catholics are not christians because according to her, "they think that they need to talk to saints in order to talk to God, and that's wrong because its like worshiping more then one god". personally I don't really care how they worship him because I think that we all just want to honor God, and just because we are taught different ways to worship him doesnt mean there's a right or wrong way to do so
Michael Sauerwein 1 month ago (edited)
This is a gross misunderstanding of the "pray to saints" tradition. Catholics can pray to God the Father, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit directly if they wish, and most do. The idea with the saints is that they have been investigated and are officially recognized by the Church as definitely in Heaven due to their works on Earth. God assigns duties and areas of expertise to both saints and angels, I guess to give them something to do. Praying to the saint or angels is not "worship", and neither are considered deities at all. Not even the angels, who while supernatural, are creations and servants of God and not deities themselves. So you can pray directly to Him or one of his servants if you need help. Prayer is a method of communication, not worship.
Linda R 1 month ago
I came across a Christian guy who was badmouthing Jews in general while spouting his Christian beliefs. I mentioned to him that Jesus was a Jew, and he said emphatically, "Not my Jesus!"
Sergio Bicerra 1 month ago
For some people (the bad religious people) starts with C and ends in Ontrol.
Deborah 1 month ago
There have been several documentaries on 'the real face of Jesus," and they all show him brown-skinned, brown-eyed. I wish I could find the link again.
Bookworm 1 month ago
If you get into the details, they always clarify that their images are basically what they think the average man of his time period and ethnicity would look like, but they're certainly closer than the blond versions.
Load More Replies... Nicole Weymann 1 month ago (edited)
On that note: I love how people see visions of Jesus/Mary and immediately recognize them as such, be it on toast, in a weirdly formed oil stain, or cheese and fat residue in a pizza box. "Recognize"? When all you've ever seen of either are pictures created from fantasies and prejudices? Even if Mary had EVER worn one of those flowing capes (iconography painters are NOT known for historical accuracy, and rightly so) it was because EVERYONE did at the time - meaning you might as well identify a vision of Charlton Heston, James Dean, or Jimi Hendrix because "the figure wore jeans, just as he did".
Limey 1 month ago
I had a friend who was LDS. I loved her. She was an amazing friend… but. She used to cross stitch and one time when she was staying with me, she hadn’t brought anything to stitch so we went to Joanne’s and got her a kit. She was very excited to get one of “our Lord” but was very upset when she was sorting the threads that the thread for his eyes was brown. “Our Lord had blue eyes” she said. I pointed out that as a person from Nazareth that wasn’t likely. That comment not go down well.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago
Also Jesus, if he was real at all, would have been pretty brown.
Owen 1 month ago
I'm no Christian, but I do hate how Jesus is usually portrayed as a white guy with a beard. He was middle eastern, and nobody mentions at any point in the bible that he has a beard.
Load More Replies... Disgruntled Panda 1 month ago
Then again, it may have been so normal to have a beard that it wasn't worth mentioning (maybe if he'd had a funky goatee it'd deserve a separate book/chapter/verse ;) )
María Hermida 1 month ago
I think a beard was the most normal thing for an adult man in that culture. I don't know about his skin. I know several fair-skinned Jewish people. They were all refugees from Eastern and Central Europe, though.
cadena kuhn 1 month ago
The common depiction if Jesus is actually based on a a painting of davincis (sp) male lover
Libstak 1 month ago
He was titled as a Rabbi, you cannot be a rabbi if you are not married...now tell us again, why it was Jesus that complaints came to at that wedding that they had run out of wine at cos if he were a guest, why was it his issue to resolve?
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Well, that color would all have come from his mother. The one we're told was is father is completely invisible.
Earthquake903 1 month ago
Clearly you don't realize white people are the center of the universe 🙄
Deborah Coalter 1 month ago
And, Jesus was practicing Judaism.. Catholics ruined everything with all their made up rules..
Rich Black 1 month ago
This may have something to do with muslims constantly voting death to "unbelievers"
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Where’s The Love?
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago
Probably part of the reason they rebelled and left the Empire a few years after the war.
However, Angel believes this can change. “It would be nice to see a broader learning scope, from the establishment of the Anglo-Saxons in England to more modern events, like the early 2000s. When you compare that to sixty-second viral videos online sharing shocking historical facts the general public often doesn’t know, it’s easy to see why history gains traction on social media.”
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That Giant Thermonuclear Reactor In The Sky Makes Life Possible But Hear Me Out About That Jesus Guy
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Elvis' Chance Of Getting Polio Has Left The Building; Thank You And Good Night!
PeepPeep the duck 1 month ago
I can hear the woo Karen’s and bleach enema Ken’s already in the distance
“You’re never going to learn in school why the London Tube system had to avoid plague pits or hear the personal stories of people from the past who had difficult childhoods, ” Angel went on. “This humanization of people who lived hundreds of years ago is exactly why so many are drawn to the niche parts of history.”
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Those Cows Are Beautiful
Sarah Kathrin Matsoukis 1 month ago
Also there's a difference between the Cotswolds and like.. Sunderland
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Game Changer
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History Meme
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The One War I Don't Think Sabaton Ever Has Or Ever Will Write A Song About
Tucker Cahooter 1 month ago
Pity they didn't have someone like Jimmy Carter around to negotiate a peace treaty instead of allowing the war to escalate
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Relatable
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I Love A Nice Vase
Gavin Johnson 1 month ago
If you do your homework, which I know folk don’t want to do, a huge amount of artefacts that are held by the British Museum were either sent there or willingly given to the British because they were at risk from various people who were hell bent on destroying them due to religious pressure. So yeah, there’s a lot of guilt (and rightfully so) but there’s a lot there that would’ve been destroyed without the British Museum.
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Historians Be Like:
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Barrel Man Had The Right Ideas
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I’ll Drink To That
Jrog 1 month ago (edited)
He also went gold digging in Klondike, worked as a cowboy, was hit by a lightning, was accused of cowardice for being among the few surviving officers for the Titanic, brought significant information to the inquiry, survived the wrecking of another ship (the Oceanic), while commanding a destroyer engaged in a firefight with a Zeppelin, survived sinking of his second command (a mid-sized destroyer), rammed a submarine, committed war crimes shooting survivors of the sinking, run unsanctioned scouting missions of enemy ports, brought spies to Germany, participated in the Dunkirk evacuation, and died as a consequence of the Great Smog of London. If there is anyone deserving a "six seasons and a movie" TV show, it's this guy
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It Really Do Be Like That
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Simps
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History Of Religion Can Often Be Frustrating
Glasofruix 1 month ago (edited)
Except that weird one who wanted to be especially "kind" to 9 year old girls.
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Read A Fricking Book For Once!
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Sacrifice Sacrifice
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Typical
PeepPeep the duck 1 month ago
I was put off getting mine and paleo anth. Buuuut dating a mining guy lately, I’m gonna do my geology and anthropology to go work there with him. So anyone putting off their anthropology, archaeology, geology or paleo anthropology- think about coming to Aus and do the mines, there’s a lot of them needed and they don’t talk about it much outside the industry 😂 I wish I knew 20yrs ago. But it’s not too late
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The 70s Were A Weird Time
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Adams Is Critically Underrated
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History Repeats Itself
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Habsburg Moment
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Dirty Dog
Beak Hookage 1 month ago
And that Hera was Hercules' loving mother. Or that she was his mother in the first place.
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This Is Why I Failed Chemistry
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They Here Cause You Dragged Them Her
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Curiously white racists never seem to have a plan to return to Europe.
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This Happened To My Grandfather When He Was Teaching Second Grade. The Kids Were So Traumatized By What They Saw A Lot Of Parents Had To Come Pick Them Up From School
Leah Woodard 1 month ago (edited)
Picking my daughter up to take her for her senior pictures on Tuesday, September 11, 2001... She couldn't bear to re-shoot them then and cannot bear to look at them now.
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So Much Spice!
#42
How About Another 4 Years Of Delays?
#43
Plot Armour Is Really Thick Here
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History Meme
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We Love Petty
Disgruntled Panda 1 month ago
This would be awesome if it was true, it's more rumour than fact. Once again, I'd love for this to be true though!
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Had Me At 360 No Scope
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago (edited)
1945? Spetsnaz still train like this. I used to date one.
#47
A Surprise To Be Sure But A Welcome One!
#48
Innovation Is Scary
#49
I Just Hope The Man She Replaced Ended Up Working As *her* Maid
luci (he/fae) 1 month ago
she was an astronomer, but this story didn't happen. the director's wife recommended that he hire her, so he did. at first, fleming started out with administrative work, but the director himself formally invited her to join the observatory, teaching her how to identify stars and the like. she was one of the founding members of the harvard computers, a group of all-female "human computers" who were hired to perform observatory duties (including discovering and classifying stars).
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