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* There is a real [[Anne of Green Gables|Green Gables]] on Prince Edward Island. Actually, [[Aluminum Christmas Trees|it already existed]] before the novels were written, and was owned by the MacNeill family, who were cousins of Lucy M. Montgomery, the author.
* In 2003, AOL subsidiary Nullsoft (publishers of the WinAmp music player) released into the wild [[wikipedia:WASTE|WASTE]], a decentralized, peer-to-peer instant messaging/file sharing protocol. It was inspired by and named for the underground postage system [[Fun with Acronyms/Literature|W.A.S.T.E.]] from [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s novel ''[[The Crying of Lot 49]]''.
* In 1912, the White Star Line inadvertently defictionalised the ''Titan'', an ocean-going vessel in ''Futility (or the Wreck of the Titan)'' by Morgan Robertson (1898) by naming a vessel ''Titanic''. {{spoiler|It was as doomed as its fictional namesake, which struck a 'berg in the North Atlantic.}}
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