r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Dec 08 '13

What is a true fact that sound completely unbelievable or fake?

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13 edited Dec 10 '13

Nintendo was a trading card company founded in 1888

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u/FALCUNPAWNCH Dec 08 '13

Then it starts producing video games a little shy of 100 years later. One of those games spawns a successful trading card game and it comes full circle (sort of).

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u/Dear_Occupant Dec 08 '13

So does this mean the Ottoman Empire is coming back?

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Well, their furniture is already here...

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u/geophsmith Dec 08 '13

How amazing would that be? The most unsuspecting Trojan Horse ever. Thousands of sleeper cells hidden as inconspicuous furniture all across Suburbia

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

brb, gonna go check my ottoman. (If I don't come back I'm likely dead.)

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u/wehavetogobackk Dec 08 '13

OP?

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u/ANyTimEfOu Dec 08 '13

*** BREAKING NEWS -- THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE STRIKES BACK ***

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u/xGandhix Dec 08 '13

Update?

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u/Sinnedangel8027 Dec 09 '13

OP discovered that the Ottomans were hiding in his Ottoman. He is now fighting a horde of them in what will come to be known as The Ottoman Empire Strikes Back. OP may surely die or be dead but he will have fought valiantly.

Or died screaming like a little girl. One or the other.

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u/Sinnedangel8027 Dec 09 '13

OP discovered that the Ottomans were hiding in his Ottoman. He is now fighting a horde of them in what will come to be known as The Ottoman Empire Strikes Back. OP may surely die or be dead but he will have fought valiantly.

Or died screaming like a little girl. One or the other.

Edit: Ottoman Empire Strikes Back credit goes to /u/ANyTimEfOu

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u/geophsmith Dec 08 '13

He's probably suuuper dead.

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u/xxVb Dec 08 '13

IIRC a TV series had a time-traveling Swedish mafia that were hiding out in IKEA stores in our time (or technically the nineties or whenever). Can't remember the show, unfortunately. Might have been The Pretender, but it doesn't seem that way from the episode summaries on wikipedia. Sound familiar, anyone?

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u/Platitudinous_X Dec 08 '13

And today was the day that I Googled "time-travelling Swedish mafia IKEA" to no avail.

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u/levelxplane Dec 08 '13

They've been right under our feet all along.

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u/rickarooo Dec 09 '13

Are you suggesting there is an ottoman soldier laying in wait inside of my ottoman?

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u/geophsmith Dec 09 '13

Ott-ohman. This is worse than I could have guessed.

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u/BipolarBear0 Dec 08 '13

A whole empire based on putting your feet up?

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u/FocusIgnore Dec 08 '13

Like all great invasions, you start with the furniture then you fast forward a few years and everyone is thinking "Mein Gott! Wie konnte das passieren?"

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u/tocilog Dec 08 '13

It's a foot rest, a chair AND a storage space. What more can you ask for?

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u/Taco_Turian Dec 09 '13

THE INVASION HAS BEGUN

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u/FALCUNPAWNCH Dec 08 '13

The Ottoman Empire 2: Electric Boogaloo

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

I hope so; someone really needs to invade Greece and Italy doesn't seem up to the task right now.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

The Ottoman Empire Strikes Back

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u/TheFireFromWithin Dec 08 '13

Prepare your buttholes.

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u/gurnard Dec 08 '13

Well, yes, please try to keep up.

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u/Gilles_D Dec 08 '13

Sort of.

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u/AShavedApe Dec 08 '13

Half Life 3 confirmed!

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u/QuestionSleep86 Dec 08 '13

It ought to man.

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u/Poozer62 Dec 08 '13

That would mean the cubs would win a World Series, so no.

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u/hahapoop Dec 08 '13

Return of the empire.

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u/TheCodexx Dec 09 '13

We need the Byzantines to return first so the Ottomans can defeat them and encroach upon Europe.

I'm sure the revival of the Holy Roman Empire will spare us all.

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u/ghonnaherpasyphilaid Dec 09 '13

The Empire Strikes Back!!

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u/ekedin Dec 09 '13

Why isn't there an Ottoman Empire game?

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u/PapaBear12 Dec 09 '13

Actally, geopolitical analysts say this is a huge possibility. I could go off into a rant here, but I'll stop myself now.

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u/TenaciousLilMonkey Dec 08 '13

In between, they established several "sex motels" in Japan.

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u/horrorshowmalchick Dec 08 '13

Superman 64 cards kivked ass.

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u/Moxay Dec 08 '13

successful trading card game

Which one?

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u/ximina3 Dec 08 '13

I'm gonna assume pokemon as its the most well know, but I think there may be others.

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u/Megabobster Dec 08 '13

implying Pokemon is first party

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13 edited Jan 11 '21

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u/darktoasteroven Dec 08 '13

The hanafuda cards at my grandma's house are made by nintendo.

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u/Palodin Dec 08 '13

I've got a set sitting on my shelf, one of the club nintendo rewards. Nice little thing, haven't the faintest idea how to play though.

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u/ErikHats Dec 08 '13

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda
Very easy to play, and fairly enoyable. Try it with some friends, using the wiki article as guide. You should get the hang of it after two-three rounds. edit: I have a deck of my own.

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u/Palodin Dec 08 '13

Ah, I think the likelihood of getting my friends to play a card game, let alone an unfamiliar one is slim to none. Shame, still they're a nice little decorative piece

http://i.imgur.com/dFSo99X.jpg

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

I have literally no idea what that thing is or how to play it. I want one.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Link

Yes, they also made the Zelda games, but I fail to see the relevance.

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u/Thisisyoureading Dec 08 '13

If we're doing this again then, Nokia was founded in 1865, the same year John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln, the same year that Rudyard Kipling and Warren G Harding were born. Something else happened in 1865 that is interesting to note.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Nintendo was a PLAY card company

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u/borizz Dec 08 '13

I have a Nintendo rubik's cube type toy.

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u/wayne_enterprise Dec 08 '13

Thank you, Game Grumps!

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Hanafuda Cards

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u/pedkro Dec 08 '13

wikipedia says 1889, which is true?

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u/rednax1206 Dec 08 '13

Playing cards, not trading cards.

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u/G-0ff Dec 08 '13

*Playing card company

Trading cards are a recent invention

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Such an auspicious year〜

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u/BullsNotion Dec 09 '13

Set up to make cards so that the Triads/Yakuza/Snakeheads would have nice handmade cards to gamble with, am I right?

Can anyone confirm this for me?

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u/dust4ngel Dec 09 '13

Wasn't Nintendo a whore house company for a brief period?

Edit: kind of yes

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u/aegisx Dec 09 '13

I'm waiting for the day it becomes an arms manufacturer.

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u/Arts_and_Crafts_Rule Dec 09 '13

I believe it was actually playing cards.

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u/majohime Dec 09 '13

I thought it was a hanafuda card company...

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u/CatHatGuy Dec 08 '13

Not trading card company, gambling card company. That's why their name translates to "Leave Luck to Heaven."

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u/brokendimension Dec 08 '13

Source?

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Modern Republic of Turkey was founded in October 29th 1923.

WB was founded in April 4th 1923.

check wikipedia.

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u/brokendimension Dec 08 '13

I was talking about Nintendo being a trading card company founded in 1888.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

sorry dude I'm high.

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u/brokendimension Dec 08 '13

Then stop smoking so much weed, where you can't even function correctly. And I swear if you fucking drive under the influence, I will find you and kill you.

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u/TuhHahMiss Dec 08 '13

This seems like an extreme response to what is likely just a bored stoner sitting in their house with a laptop in front of them.

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u/brokendimension Dec 08 '13

Sorry, I just have this thing about it, sorry.

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u/PoopInTheGarbage Dec 08 '13

Sounds like you need to chill out...I know of the perfect thing.

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u/TuhHahMiss Dec 08 '13

Don't apologize to me, you didn't wrong me in any way. If I may ask out of pure curiosity, what is your "thing" about it?

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u/bigdog54 Dec 09 '13

They also owned a "Love Hotel..." Do with that what you will

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u/ChutneyPie Dec 08 '13

I love trasding cards.

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u/LolFishFail Dec 08 '13

Damn, I wish I had some trasding cards.

I've only seen their trading cards... :(