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At this point, the news could be: King Kong the Unpredictable King of Somewhere-Vaguely-European-Land declared war on the sea after claiming the waves insulted his crown. His army spent three weeks hurling spears at the tide while Blorvik personally screamed insults at seagulls. And honestly? I would totally believe it.
So take a break from doomscrolling and enjoy these history-themed memes. They’ll remind you that humanity’s been losing its collective mind for centuries, and somehow, we’re still here.
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Context: During the 1665 plague, Newton isolated and discovered calculus, gravity, and that white light splits into colors, revolutionizing science.
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Context: During World War II, the U.S. Navy and Royal Navy fought Japan in the Pacific. Meanwhile, Germany's Kriegsmarine mostly focused on the Atlantic, using U-boats against Allied ships. Unlike Japan, Germany had almost no naval presence in the Pacific, making it irrelevant in that theater of war
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Context: In winter 1917, starving wolves invaded WWI Eastern Front trenches, attacking livestock and even wounded soldiers. The threat was so severe that German and Russian troops paused fighting, agreed to a temporary truce, and joined forces to hunt the wolves before returning to war.
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Context: In 1939, Stalin invaded Finland expecting a quick victory, but Finnish forces resisted fiercely. One soldier, Simo Häyhä, nicknamed the "White Death," became a legend by killing over 500 Soviet troops as a sniper, helping Finland hold off the USSR far longer than expected in the Winter War.
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Context: On September 4, 2006, Steve Irwin was fatally struck in the chest by a stingray while filming near Australia's Batt Reef.
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26 Blast-From-The-past Historical Memes with Context to Constrain Confusion
Look, this one is for the ages. We've all lost the plot of what's going on in the world a long time ago. The amount of absolutely ridiculous news happening every day is staggering, and no one in their right mind can keep up. So, I'm here to give you a meme-sized historical reminder that history has always been as unhinged as anything we know today. Only back then, you didn't have Twitter throwing 17 different Twitter storms at you every day; you had kings, warlords, and self-proclaimed prophets bring a medieval equivalent of "We regret to inform you."
Back then, you didn't have push notifications, you had monarchs and Caesars and generals with world-conquering ambitions sending a dude on a horse to break the news that your village is now under their reign—like an electronics store announcing "under new management."
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