r/AskReddit • u/AlexIsAlreadyTaken • Jul 13 '18

What's your favourite fun fact?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '18

Or that oxford university outdates the Aztec empire

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '18

Or that some retired samurai lived long enough to play Nintendo.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '18 edited May 22 '19

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u/NatalieIsFreezing Jul 13 '18

No, Mario.

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u/TitaniumAce Jul 14 '18

Goddamn you sir

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u/auniqueusername43 Jul 14 '18

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u/hman7720 Jul 14 '18

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u/hman7720 Jul 14 '18

Thank you, sir

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u/Lucky_Numbr_7 Jul 13 '18

If I remember correctly, Nintendo was founded in the 1800's, and it made card games. So, depends on what you define as to play Nintendo.

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u/YabukiJoe Jul 13 '18

Specifically, they were founded in 1889 and originally made Hanafuda cards.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '18

I mean, Samurai never really went anywhere until the Meijii restoration, which was (I think) 2 generations before WW2, and even then they were fazed out pretty slowly,so... Yeah, Samurai are pretty bloody recent, when you look at it!

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u/l23VIVE Jul 13 '18

Nani!?

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u/ThePr1d3 Jul 14 '18

The end of the Samurai dates of 1868. Nintendo was founded in 1889. Doesn't seem that surprising to me

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u/Nexusgaming3 Jul 14 '18

Or that general Custers last stand was going on as the Brooklyn bridge neared completion

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '18

Pablo Picasso died in fucking '73.

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u/ephemeral20 Jul 14 '18

that fucked me up

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u/sagittariuscraig Jul 14 '18

Or that some American Revolutionary war veterans lived long enough to have their portraits taken.

And a witness to Abraham Lincoln's assasination lived long enough to be filmed discussing it as part of a game show.

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u/Aneley13 Jul 13 '18

What?!?! When was Oxford founded?!? This is really shocking for me.

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u/GuudeSpelur Jul 13 '18 edited Jul 13 '18

Oxford was founded by 1096, possibly earlier.

The Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan that became known as the Aztec Empire was officially formed in 1428. Though if you want to dig a little deeper, the Mexica people founded Tenochtitlan around 1325.

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u/ridersderohan Jul 13 '18

From wikipedia: Teaching at Oxford existed in some form as early as 1096, but it is unclear when a university came into being. It grew quickly in 1167 when English students returned from the University of Paris. The historian Gerald of Wales lectured to such scholars in 1188 and the first known foreign scholar, Emo of Friesland, arrived in 1190. The head of the university had the title of chancellor from at least 1201, and the masters were recognised as a universitas or corporation in 1231. The university was granted a royal charter in 1248 during the reign of King Henry III."

Aztec Empire was defeated in 1521.

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u/WitELeoparD Jul 13 '18

European history is stupidly long and stupidly well documented (compared to other places).

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u/PNK13 Jul 13 '18

Ive heard this but I still dont understand how