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On Sunday, Guns 'N' Roses fans finally get to collect earnings on Dr Pepper's bet that the tumultuous band would never finish Chinese Democracy -- for 24 hours. After that, the freebies revert to huge traffic for the soft-drink manufacturer's servers. "We never thought this day would come," Dr Pepper's vice president of marketing Tony Jacobs told Variety , speaking no doubt of November 23, which also happens to be Chinese Democracy 's release date. "But now that it's here, all we can say is: The Dr Pepper's [...]