Fact: Bears eat beets.

A more corroborated fact: Ian Fleming named the secret agent protagonist of his books after the ornithologist James Bond (of Philadelphia!) after seeing a copy of Bond's book Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies in Jamaica.  One of the neat things about working in a library at a biological research station is that the collection is likely to have such a title as this among the "old" books, by which I generally mean the part of the collection assigned Dewey Decimal call numbers rather than Library of Congress call numbers.  So I was able to take a look at this unassuming book that relatively few non-birding people would have ever heard of were it not for this bit of trivia.  Among the herons, macaws, parrots, hummingbirds, and flycatchers (along with the curiously-named "Old Man Bird" native to Jamaica), the book lists "Ivory-billed Woodpecker" as a potential bird one might see in Cuba, but notes that its range was "Formerly widespread" even in 1947.

When trying to find information sources for this entry other than Wikipedia, I found this dandy from the Washington Post in an obituary of 17 February 1989:

PHILADELPHIA--The real James Bond has died peacefully in his bed of unreported causes with never a fear of being blown up, poisoned or tortured by a horde of archvillains who threaten western civilization.

The actual James Bond, unlike his fictional namesake, never toted a gun and never drank a martini that was shaken, not stirred. He spied on birds, not beautiful female enemy agents, for a living.

Interestingly, many of the obituaries seemed to point up the pop culture reference of Bond's life, and only secondarily the fact that he was a renowned ornithologist.

EDIT: It appears that the book Fleming had was not Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies (1947), but simply Birds of the West Indies (1936).  The Field Guide seems to take material from the 1936 book judging from its copyright dates.  Still a neat little book and honestly, was that quote above not worth finding even this lesser-known James Bond work?