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TIL A Boeing 737 gets better gas mileage than a Honda Odyssey, a Toyota Camry and a Harley Davidson Sportster (per person)

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1VwX TIL that before Guns N'Roses, Slash once auditioned for the band Poison, he decided not to join when he was asked about wearing make up.
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jLwj TIL that Ian Fleming wanted his protagonist to be ‘an extremely dull, uninteresting man’ and when trying to name him, thought that 'James Bond’ was the “dullest name [he] ever heard”
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