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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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XLPE TIL there only three species in the animal kingdom that have sex for pleasure: humans, dolphins and bonobo chimps
yQjAM TIL that there have been several cases of whale carcasses bursting due to a buildup of gas in the decomposition process. In Nov 1970, when a dead whale was about to burst, a team blew it up using dynamite in an attempt to dispose of it. The explosion threw whale flesh over 800 feet (240 M) away!
rblx TIL the song “Takin’ Care of Business” by BTO, a song constantly used as a soundtrack to denote hard work, is actually about doing as little work as possible.
XExWR TIL that Avenal, a small town of around 15,000 people in California's agriculturally prolific central valley, is the pistachio capital of the world.
awgbN TIL of James Martin Stagg, a meteorologist for the allies in WW2 tasked with finding the day with the right conditions for the D-Day invasion. His team and him predicted that the weather would clear up on June 6th, which the Germans didn’t predict. He was right and D-Day was successful.