To make you happy, just remember that there is the multi-verse theory, which says that every universe has every different possibility. Thus, in one universe, Sun Tzu created the famous book "The Art Of Mayonnaise"
In another, Super Mario really is running through the streets of Brazil, stomping on turtles, chowing down on some hallucinogenic mushrooms and traveling by sewer pipe whilst yelling "IT'SA ME! MARIO! WAHOO!"