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TIL Mansfield Smith-Cumming, inspiration for James Bond's "M," was involved in discovering cum worked as an invisible ink during WW1. Agents adopted the motto "Every man his own stylo". However, the use of semen as invisible ink was ceased because of the smell it produced for the eventual receiver.

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