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TIL that when writing the James Bond film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967), author Roald Dahl was given a formula for Bond girls: The first is killed by the enemy midway "preferably in Bond's arms", the second is an enemy Bond seduces who also dies, and the third survives to the end of the film.

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