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• The Bond films have been filled with interesting gadgets and weaponry, along with some pretty fast cars. But these weren’t Ian Fleming’s only stories about fascinating automobiles. In 1964, Fleming penned the story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for his young son Caspar. The story about a magical flying car was made into a musical film in 1968, starring Dick van Dyke and produced by Albert Broccoli. It was the only non-Bond film Broccoli produced after the Bond series began.
• If you removed all the phosphorus from your body, you'd have enough to make about 250 matchheads.
• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the oldest documented living parrot is more than 80 years old. Cookie, a Major Mitchell's cockatoo, has lived at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois since May 1934.
• Those who study such things say that boys who have first names that are considered to be strange or peculiar have a higher incidence of mental problems as adults than boys with more traditional names. The correlation was not found to hold true for girls.
• There was a time when it was illegal in Hawaii for a woman to eat a coconut.
• The New Orleans Saints were admitted to the National Football League on Nov. 1, 1966 -- All Saints' Day. The team, however, was • The next time you're at a named for the iconic New holiday gathering and some- Orleans jazz song "When one has had a bit too much the Saints Go Marching In." to drink, you can say that • If you're an American who person is cherubimical; it's has a garden, you're more likemuch nicer than calling a ly to be growing tomatoes than family member a drunk. any other vegetable or fruit. • You may have learned that the distress signal SOS stands for "Save Our Ship," but that's a myth. That signal was chosen because in Morse Code, it's easy to remember
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• Several beauties received a career boost from their Bond girl role, including Jill St. John, Britt Eklund, Kim Basinger, Jane Seymour, Denise Richards, Barbara Bach, and Halle Berry. Bond’s only wife throughout the series has been Diana Rigg as Tracy Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. She was shot and killed on their wedding day. • The Bond girl in From Russia With Love was the 1960 Miss Universe runner-up, Italian Daniela Bianchi. She spoke no English, and began taking classes as soon as she was selected for the role, but in the end, producers opted to dub over her voice.
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• It was beloved American author Kurt Vonnegut who made the following sage observation: "Laughing or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do."
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• Beautiful women have always been a significant part of the Bond films and gave many actresses their start in the movie business. The very first Bond girl was Swiss-born Ursula Andress, who had the role of Honey Ryder in 1962’s Dr. No. Andress received a Golden Globe for the New Star of the Year for her work. Her career was set, as she appeared the following year with Elvis Presley in Fun in Acapulco, and went on to star in nearly 30 movies and several television appearances.