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"American Gods: The House on the Rock is a real place in southern Wisconsin and is, if anything, even weirder than described in the book. The carousel is real (but you probably won't be allowed to ride on it). So are The Streets Of Yesterday and The Drunkard's Dream. And the whale. And the Infinity Room. And the Santas, if you visit around Christmas (they vanish into the ether come January). There's also some beautiful artwork, rooms full of dolls, self-playing orchestra instruments, enough narrow dark corridors to make a claustrophobe lose it, and a surprising dearth of bathrooms."

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"The original UK edition of The Fairy Rebel, and the audiobook version read by the author, mentions a candy bar called the Crunchie bar. Non-British children who hear the audiobook might assume this was just a made-up candy with a generic made-up name, but the Cadbury Crunchie is in fact a real British chocolate bar with a honeycomb brittle center. (The American edition replaces it with a Snickers bar.)"

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