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** It's also the basis of a ''[[Youkai]]'' called Ao-nyōbō.

** Also in Elizabethan England people were really fond of sugar and had the expected dental hygiene practices of Elizabethan English (ie none), with predictable results for their teeth. Those who could not afford their dose of sugar sometimes coloured their teeth to gain the proper look.

* ''[[Discworld]]'':

* ''[[~~Discworld/The Last Continent|~~The Last Continent]]'': you'd think that meat pies floating in pea soup wouldn't be eaten by anyone. Apparently it is a common late-night, drunk-food dish in Adelaide. Also commonly eaten by sober people during the middle of the day in other parts of south Australia.

** ''[[The Last Continent]]'': you'd think that meat pies floating in pea soup wouldn't be eaten by anyone. Apparently it is a common late-night, drunk-food dish in Adelaide. Also commonly eaten by sober people during the middle of the day in other parts of south Australia.

** [[Terry Pratchett]] ''loves'' this trope: [[wikipedia:Vampire pumpkins and watermelons|vampire pumpkins and watermelons are actual folklore.]] [[wikipedia:Nitrocellulose|Exploding billiard balls]] happen to be real too.

** In ''[[~~Discworld/Mort|~~Mort]]'', one of the early books from Albert's life is from, "Back before they invented spelling." Terry Pratchett isn't just being funny here. Prior to the rise of dictionaries, words were just spelled phonetically, with no real regard to consistency.

** In ''[[Mort]]'', one of the early books from Albert's life is from, "Back before they invented spelling." Terry Pratchett isn't just being funny here. Prior to the rise of dictionaries, words were just spelled phonetically, with no real regard to consistency.

** Surely the idea of a brutal war being [[~~Discworld/~~Jingo|fought over an island that's just risen from the ocean]] is a fantasy narrative device used by Terry Pratchett to poke fun at the idiotic nationalism of a bygone age? [[The Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:Ferdinandea|disagrees!]]

** Surely the idea of a brutal war being [[Jingo|fought over an island that's just risen from the ocean]] is a fantasy narrative device used by Terry Pratchett to poke fun at the idiotic nationalism of a bygone age? [[The Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:Ferdinandea|disagrees!]]

*** [[G.I. Joe]] comics had a similar storyline with the emergence of Cobra Island.

* ''[[Good Omens]]'' mentions the angel Aziraphale's collection of Infamous Bibles, named from errors in typesetting. Amazingly, ''all'' of these Bibles (other than the Charing Cross and the Buggre Alle This) ''[[wikipedia:Bible errata|actually exist]]''.