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Which came first, the Great Pyramid of Giza or Nintendo?

Which came first, the Great Pyramid of Giza or Nintendo?
the Great Pyramid of Giza
2,560 BCE — 4,449 years before Nintendo

the Great Pyramid of Giza came first, by 4,449 years. Khufu's pyramid was completed at Giza.

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the Great Pyramid of Giza Nintendo
Year 2,560 BCE 1889
Date — 1889-09-23
Category landmark company
What happened Khufu's pyramid was completed at Giza. Fusajiro Yamauchi began making hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto.

the Great Pyramid of Giza

The Great Pyramid was finished around 2560 BC and remained the tallest structure on Earth for about 3,800 years, until Lincoln Cathedral's spire in 1311. The comparison worth holding on to is Cleopatra: she was born in 69 BC, roughly 2,500 years after the pyramid was built, and lived roughly 2,000 years before us. The pyramid was more ancient to Cleopatra than Cleopatra is to anyone reading this.

Nintendo

Nintendo was founded in 1889 to make handmade hanafuda cards, and it was a playing-card company for about eighty years. It is older than the Ford Motor Company (1903), older than the aeroplane, older than the Eiffel Tower by five months, and older than the modern Olympic Games. Before settling on video games in the 1970s it tried taxis, instant rice and a chain of love hotels.

Common questions

Which came first, the Great Pyramid of Giza or Nintendo?
the Great Pyramid of Giza, by 4,449 years — 2,560 BCE against 1889.
When did the Great Pyramid of Giza start?
2,560 BCE. Khufu's pyramid was completed at Giza.
When did Nintendo start?
1889. Fusajiro Yamauchi began making hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto.

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Sources

  1. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History — Smithsonian Institution
  2. Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)

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