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TIL the " Where do we go now? " ending to Guns N Roses " Sweet Child O' Mine " came about because the band couldn't figure out how to end this part of the track.

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b9O44 TIL the United States has military equipment stashed away in large caves in Norway so that if they need to defend them, the U.S. can just fly in troops and use the prepositioned equipment
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