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** Also, while there may not have a ''Starship'' Enterprise yet, NASA did build a Space Shuttle which was named ''Enterprise'' due to a petition campaign spearheaded by ''Trek'' fans, though it never actually flew in space (it was only used for in-atmosphere tests, so they didn't bother including engines or a reentry-capable heat shield). [[Celebrity Paradox|Weirdly]], ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' implies that the starship was named at least in part after the shuttle.
*** Since several notable US naval vessels have been named ''Enterprise'', it's quite believable that NASA could have ended up naming a space vessel ''Enterprise'' and that if there ever was a United Earth or United Federation of Planets, it would include a USS Enterprise as well. Star Trek includes several other ships named after real-life naval vessels, such as ''Saratoga'' and ''Yamato''.
***:And Virgin Galactic's first commercial spacecraft is named—what else? The ''VSS Enterprise''. Trek fans everywhere cried.
*** It will have a sibling ship called ''VSS [[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]''.
** In the mid 1990s you could go out and buy yourself a functional [http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0996September/Sparky/tricorder.html tricorder]. There was a clause in Gene Roddenberry's contract that anyone who could make a working Tricorder was allowed to call it that; a now defunct Canadian company produced the "TR-107 Tricorder Mark I." It was about the size of a huge novelty universal remote, was done up to look like a TNG tricorder and loaded with the appropriate sound effects, and could detect EM fields, barometric pressure, temperature, light values and colour values.
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* In the 2015 series ''Servant of the People'' Volodymyr Zelensky played a man who became President of the Ukraine in a freak victory resulting from a rant on political corruption. In the 2019 election, Volodymyr Zelensky ran for President of the Ukraine for real as a joke, creating a political party named after the show and using its logo in the process. In a freak victory he won with over 70% of the vote as a result of frustration with current political corruption.
* In 2018, [[HGTV]] bought the house which was used for exterior [[Stock Footage]] of the Brady home in ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', and a team of their designers completely replicated the interior sets from the show within it as a fully working house.
* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' exists as a local street in a few communities. "WCFE Mountain Lake PBS, 1 Sesame Street, Plattsburgh NY 12901" is a real address.
* ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' exists as a real island in a few places, including [[Puerto Rico]].
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