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TIL that Kurt Cobain sat next to Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses in a flight to Seattle right after escaping from rehab just days before his suicide in 1994, despite the animosity between both bands McKagan said that Cobain was very pleasant and "Seemed happy".

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