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TIL That James Bond has slept with 46 women and at least “kissed” a further 52 in the first 20 films. According to one doctor: "The likelihood of James Bond having chlamydia is extremely high,".

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worxM TIL the The Mission: Impossible theme song doubles as a spy code, because the music mirrors the Morse Code for M (dash dash) I (dot dot)
4X41J TIL that after the death of several Northern Irish republicans in a prison hunger strike, the Iranian government renamed the street where the British Embassy in Tehran is located from Winston Churchill Boulevard to Bobby Sands Street, after one of the strikers.
7Nvx TIL in the 50s, teenagers having a stable monogamous relationship (“going steady”) was considered edgy and frowned upon by parents and the church as amoral. Instead they encouraged their kids to go out with different people every weekend. (read column on the right)
nAb TIL The Japanese yakuza provided disaster relief for both the Kobe and Tohoku earthquakes.
MexoW TIL The Jim Twins were separated at birth who didn't meet until age 39. Both were named Jim, had first wives named Linda and second wives named Betty, named their sons "James" and dogs "Toy", chain-smoked Salems, drove Chevys, were sheriff deputies and vacationed on the same beach in Florida.