r/HistoryMemes

12,401,014 subscribers — A place for history memes about events over 20 years ago.

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Top posts this week

The 10 highest-scored posts from the last 7 days — ranking by real score over a week naturally filters out posts that got removed shortly after posting.

Post	Score	Posted
Archeologists off the coast of Iceland finding out how old a random clam is!	21818	4d ago
I wish this was a rule	15173	4d ago
That one time history ended for 9 years	14625	1d ago
Spoiler alert: He didn't	13126	1d ago
Ever wonder why Election Day in America is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November? Well in 1845 congress wished to make it easier for their fellow citizen to take part in elections and worked around their schedule	11732	3d ago
Stationing corn-fed Americans in WW2 China caused an economic crisis	10875	4d ago
509 years ago today, Martin Luther wrote a letter	9080	6d ago
Wait...hold on a minute.	9057	3d ago
The real treasure was the friends we made along the way even at war	8449	3d ago
When the US government stops you from revealing Japanese war crimes	8205	4d ago

Posting rules

Keep Posts History Related
No Reposts
Discrimination and Abuse
Year Limit
Banned Memes and Formats
Genocide and Atrocity Denial
No Brigading
Post memes
Quality Control
Karma Whoring
Low Effort Titles
No 1900's onwards on weekends

Pull this with the API

1 credit per page — this exact request:

curl

curl "https://api.threadsnoop.com/v1/posts?subreddit=HistoryMemes&limit=25" \
  -H "x-api-key: ts_live_YOUR_KEY"

See /docs/posts for pagination, filtering with q=, and full response shape, or /docs/subreddits for the rules endpoint used above.

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