History

If there’s anything better than a funny meme on the internet it’s a funny history meme – and if there’s anything better than that, it’s a history meme that might actually teach you something. History is the best, and it’s so vast that there’s no way for anyone to know everything – so I really hope these memes...

Even history buffs wish they knew more about history – there is always more to learn, and there are so many topics that are just never brought up. If you’re always up for learning something new and you also like to laugh, history memes are the way to go – and we think these 10...

Memes are good for many things – a laugh, bringing us together, highlighting a moment in time – but we don’t often think about their ability to teach us something. That said, in this day and age of bite-sized everything, it’s not surprising to find our knowledge coming out in the same way – and...

Throughout history, many cultures had a distrust or an outright dislike of witches and witchcraft, but the Puritan age of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries really took things a few steps further. Fueled by a cruel mixture of misogyny and religion, society in the late 15th century was out to accuse and try and...

You probably realize that the United States does things different when it comes to units of measurement. We eschew the metric system (most of the time) for, you know, reasons and stuff. But when it comes to how we tell temperature, wouldn’t it just be easier if we could all be on the same page?...

Visionaries are often called nuts, or live as a bit of an outcast in their contemporary world. Human beings like the status quo, and they don’t have the time or inclination to envision a world that’s so different from our own. We’re a bit like ostriches, burying our heads and hoping nothing changes while we’re...

Fifty years ago Oregon had a “whale of a problem” explained reporter Paul Linnman. In November of 1970, a 45-ft, 8-ton whale carcass washed ashore in Florence, OR just 60 miles west of Eugene and the nearest beach town. It had been so long since a whale washed ashore, none of the locals remembered exactly...

I’ve always thought it was interesting, how car companies got their names – and Jerry Seinfeld’s bit on how car models are named is downright hilarious. Some names are obvious – like Ford, for example, which is named after their founder – while others are a bit more elusive. If this sort of semi-obscure knowledge...