Some people love watching sports, some people love playing games, and some people love to spend their free time outside of work or school thinking about history. It's a unique hobby: the longer you look at it, the weirder the past appears to be. You learn about some arcane ritual that people really believed, or some random chance event that determined the next several centuries, and you see how truly brutal and odd the world can be and has been.

On Reddit's /r/historymemes, lovers of historical knowledge share some of what they've learned in the form of memes. It's almost impossible to browse the subreddit without learning something, even if it's a small thing. And it could end up being a thing that changes the way you see the world, or gives you context for understanding the headlines you're reading in the news.

Many Names

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Empire

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Astronomically Accurate

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France's Long 19th Century

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Best Since The Phalanx

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Almost A Romance Language

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English is more Germanic than Welsh, which has roots back in Roman Britain.

The Only Right Name

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Tchaikovsky

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Colonial Policy

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You Wake Up And It's 1763

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Little did young George Washington know…

Possible Uses

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Good Floods Bad Floods

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Diplomatic History

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Iron Curtain

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Making Of Modern Linguistic Nationalism

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People used to be out here speaking Occitan.

Hellenistic Culture

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Might As Well Have A PhD

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Industrialization

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What Was Perhaps Inevitable

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What It All Is

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Kaiser and Tsar are both ways of saying "Caesar."

Aristocratic Diet

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Spooky

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Early Republic Debates About Etiquette

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John Adams was a stickler for ceremony, and many other Founding Fathers were not.

Great Power

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Titan Of Industry

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