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TIL Ian Fleming named James Bond after an ornithologist. Fleming would later tell Bond's wife, "I can only offer [him] unlimited use of the name Ian Fleming...Perhaps one day he will discover some particularly horrible species of bird which he would like to christen in an insulting fashion."

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