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TIL The James Bond film, 'Moonraker' was produced and released prior to 'For Your Eyes Only' due to the success of 'Star Wars'. The end credits for 'The Spy Who Loved Me' stated, "James Bond Will Return in 'For Your Eyes Only'" but he actually came back in Moonraker.

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gMXnD TIL: Covent Garden Ladies was London's directory of prostitutes published from 1757-95. It advertised different women, for example: "Miss Clicamp: finest, fattest figure as fully finished for fun and frolick as fertile fancy ever formed. Fortunate for the true lovers of fat."
LQlwZ TIL that 150,000 people speak the native language of Corsican. Always thought they just speak French there.
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pEMO TIL that an African man won a court case in the 1650s that let him keep another African, John Castor, as his slave. That means that the first legally recognized owner of a permanent slave in America was an African man.
OaXe TIL that hired footsoldiers in the Los Zetas cartel were literally trained by the US military to the same standard of US infantry soldiers