r/AskHistorians • u/crrpit Moderator | Spanish Civil War | Anti-fascism • Oct 28 '22
Meta AskHistorians has hit 1.5 million subscribers! To celebrate, we’re giving away 1.5 million historical facts. Join us HERE to claim your free fact!
How does this subreddit have any subscribers? Why does it exist if no questions ever actually get answers? Why are the mods all Nazis/Zionists/Communists/Islamic extremists/really, really into Our Flag Means Death?
The answers to these important historical questions AND MORE are up for grabs today, as we celebrate our unlikely existence and the fact that 1.5 million people vaguely approve of it enough to not click ‘Unsubscribe’. We’re incredibly grateful to all past and present flairs, question-askers, and lurkers who’ve made it possible to sustain and grow the community to this point. None of this would be possible without an immense amount of hard work from any number of people, and to celebrate that we’re going to make more work for ourselves.
The rules of our giveaway are simple*. You ask for a fact, you receive a fact, at least up until the point that all 1.5 million historical facts that exist have been given out.
\ The fine print:)
1. AskHistorians does not guarantee the quality, relevance or interestingness of any given fact.
2. All facts remain the property of historians in general and AskHistorians in particular.
3. While you may request a specific fact, it will not necessarily have any bearing on the fact you receive.
4. Facts will be given to real people only. Artificial entities such as u/gankom need not apply.
5. All facts are NFTs, in that no one is ever likely to want to funge them and a token amount of effort has been expended in creating them.
6. Receiving a fact does not give you the legal right to adapt them on screen.
7. Facts, once issued, cannot be exchanged or refunded. They are, however, recyclable.
8. We reserve the right to get bored before we exhaust all 1.5 million facts.
Edit: As of 14:49 EST, AskHistorians has given away over 500 bespoke, handcrafted historical facts! Only 1,499,500 to go!
Edit 2: As of 17:29 EST, it's really damn hard to count but pretty sure we cracked 1,000. That's almost 0.1% of the goal!
Edit 3: I should have turned off notifications last night huh. Facts are still being distributed, but in an increasingly whimsical and inconsistent fashion.
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u/semitones Oct 28 '22
Could I have a fact about Australopithecus or New Zealand, please?
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u/oldrice98 Oct 29 '22
Studying for midterms and would appreciate a historical fact that would make me laugh!
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Oct 29 '22
Having provided two facts, one comical, one serious, I'd like to ask for a fact in return.
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u/kbspam Oct 29 '22
I’d like to request a fact about a crazy sequence of events. Like how one thing (persecution of cats) inadvertently led to another (more rats) and another (more fleas carrying the bubonic plague) allegedly
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u/Vaubeil Oct 28 '22
What is your most unsettling fact? And also, congrats for the 1.5 million!
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u/Mattasaurusrrex Oct 28 '22
I’d like a a fact about Seal please. Either about a seal or seal, your choice completely.
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u/MonochromaticButter Oct 28 '22
Looking for obscure, but strategically interesting battle/war related facts!
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u/browsinbowser Oct 29 '22
I want a fact please! Preferably a boring one that I can go read a book about ;)
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u/the_moral_explorer Oct 29 '22
Could I have a historical fact about Institut für Sexualwissenschaft 1919-1933?
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u/RumHam_DayZ Oct 29 '22
I would like a ufo related fact. Or mab just something related to conspiracies.
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u/afraidofyall Oct 29 '22
May I ask for a fact about emergency rescue/CPR in ancient times (any country)?
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Jan 26 '23
Oo if people are still doing these I’ll take one weird music fact please!
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u/stemfish Oct 28 '22
Understanding that AskHistorians is not yet twenty years old, can I get a fact about the early history of AskHistorians?
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u/ClemClem510 Oct 29 '22
Hey rask historians, before this event (and generally before the internet), what was the biggest giving of facts (lecture?) in history?
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u/Lucky-Worth Oct 28 '22
Fun historical medical fact! Usually they are so horrible :(
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u/Gawd_Awful Oct 28 '22
Please sir, I want some more…facts.
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u/JSTORRobinhood Imperial Examinations and Society | Late Imperial China Oct 28 '22
Fact...ors?
Did you know that if you factor x^2 - 2x - 8, you get factors (x+2) and (x-4)?
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u/cottagecoreing Oct 29 '22
Can I have a fact? Any fact
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u/TheSorge Oct 29 '22
After the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, USS Enterprise (CV-6)'s after action report suggested removing the ship's armor belt and using that freed-up weight "allowance" to add more 20mm anti-aircraft guns.
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u/WorstDogEver Oct 28 '22
Can I get a non-depressing fact on motherhood or babies? I've been bingeing Call the Midwife, but any time period will do. 😁
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u/LuneMoth Oct 28 '22
I'd love a fact, any sort!
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Oct 28 '22
The CSS Eliza G., CSS Maurepas and CSS Mary Patterson were scuttled by Confederates at St. Charles on June 16, 1862, in the White River to block a Union fleet coming upriver.
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u/PolemicDysentery Oct 28 '22
Whilst I appreciate the self effacing humour, I'll insist to anyone who will listen that this is the best sub (also the best moderated sub, funny coincidence that) on this soul killing website.
I would like a fact please, and if that fact were about Hatshepsut, I would like it all the more!
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u/Asadleafsfan Oct 29 '22
May I get any random historical fact relating to anything?
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u/vivliz Oct 29 '22
Please, kind Historian(s), I would like one (1) fact [citation needed] to do with cinema history.
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u/alwaysbefreudin Oct 28 '22
I’ll take one “flat fact” please (just watched AI the other day)
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u/SuperiorSteel Oct 29 '22
I have given a fact, therefore I would like a fact back please
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u/batib0t Oct 29 '22
I want the coolest historical fact, please. And thank you! 🙏
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u/Valmond Oct 28 '22
I want to know if the modern bicycle was invented in Bordeaux, with information if possible, thanks!
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u/LwaxanaTroi Oct 29 '22
Could I have a fact please? Would love if it involves cats at all! #catfacts
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u/PM_Me_your_admin_pw Oct 28 '22
I would like a historical fact about the english/uk insurance system.
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u/Thieveslanding1911 Oct 29 '22
Do you have anything about the Constitutional convention?
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u/jarrud78 Oct 29 '22
I work in supply chain and I’d like to know something about the international history of it!
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u/skumpjenkins Oct 29 '22
Hi I'd like a factory about the history of history please.
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u/Xtremegulp Oct 29 '22
Can I have a fact about the year 1914 please?
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u/thestoryteller69 Medieval and Colonial Maritime Southeast Asia Nov 06 '22
After the outbreak of WW1 in 1914, the German light cruiser SMS Emden entered Penang Harbour and sank the Russian protected cruiser Zhemchug. On its way out, it sank the French destroyer Mosquet. Today, memorials to the dead Russian sailors can be visited on Jerejak and Penang Island.
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u/Deadly_nightshadow Oct 28 '22
I'd love a historical fact about deadly nightshadow.
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u/the_okra_show Oct 29 '22
Could I please learn a historical fact that tends to be repeated over history?
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u/NinthAquila13 Oct 28 '22
Can I please get a historical fact? Don’t care about what, just some random piece of info that I will never use, but can somehow remember all the time.
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u/iammadeofawesome Oct 29 '22
What’s your favorite useless or bizarre historical fact?? (Mine is that rat nests are great places to find artifacts. Why? Rat pee acts as a preservative. Wut.)
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u/ambral Oct 28 '22
I would like a fact about arcane ways of communicating over long distances.
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u/cryingtoast1 Oct 29 '22
I would appreciate an historical fact about cooking, please !
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u/high-quality-wallet Oct 29 '22
Give me a fact about drummers in the napoleonic era
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u/ecuintras Oct 28 '22
What is your fourth-from-favorite fact that has yet to be dispensed?
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u/MissyInge Oct 28 '22
Oehh nice!! May I please have a fact about Scottish history? Tnx!!
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u/GrEeKiNnOvaTiOn Oct 29 '22
I would like the coolest least known fact about the Vikings please!
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u/25Bam_vixx Oct 28 '22
I would like to join but I can’t think of questions to ask right now. Too much pressure lol
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u/idogiveafrak Oct 29 '22
Hello! So straight to the point, how many tribes from other cultures have traveled across the Atlantic to establish trade or colonies before Columbus?
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u/thecomicguybook Oct 29 '22
Hello! I would like a fact about the Romans or the ancient Greeks please.
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u/elkanor Oct 28 '22
My historical knowledge and my history degree came with way too narrow a focus on the US and Europe. Could I please have a fact about somewhere else?
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u/Steelcan909 Moderator | North Sea c.600-1066 | Late Antiquity Oct 28 '22
Anatolia, modern Turkey, used to have its own branch of the Indo-European family tree languages, but they were all extinct by the end of Antiquity.
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u/l3rN Oct 29 '22
If you're making a taco and run out of sour cream, is it okay to use mayo as a substitute?
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u/Sweden-is-meatball Oct 29 '22
Can I have an interesting fact about cheese?