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The age difference between Posamund Pike and Halle Berry in Die Another Day - 12 years and 5 months - is the greatest age difference between two Bond girls in one film since Alison Doody and Grace Jones - a difference of 18 years - in A View to a Kill.

We nearly lived in a world where Bruce Willis played Detective Riggs and Mel Gibson was the face of the "Die Hard" franchise. Willis turned down the part of Riggs to star in "Die Hard," while Gibson turned down the part of John McClane to star in "Lethal Weapon."

Stalkers have many motivations, including hatred, obsession, and a desire for intimacy. According to most experts, there are five types of stalkers, all with differing behaviors and motivations.
The first type is the rejected stalker, who begins to harass a victim after the unsatisfactory end of a romantic or perceived romantic relationship. A rejected stalker engages in stalking to continue to try have influence over his or her victim.

And sometimes it's just a prank, bro.

One theory is that the word pencil comes from the Latin word pencillus, which means “little tail.” Another is that it is derived from the French pincel, meaning “little paintbrush.” Before the invention of erasers, writers and artists used bread crumbs to erase mistakes.

A mental breakdown (also known as a nervous breakdown) is an acute, time-limited mental disorder that manifests primarily as severe stress-induced depression, anxiety, or dissociation in a previously functional individual, to the extent that they are no longer able to function on a day-to-day basis until the disorder is treated.

To reduce erosion and improve water quality, New York City is using 5,000 old toilets to create an oyster bed in Jamaica Bay.

The cheerful clinking of glasses before drinking evolved from one of the darker practices of distant history. The custom dates back to the Middle Ages, when people were so distrustful of one another that they weren't above poisoning anyone they perceived as an enemy.
Clinking glasses supposedly caused liquid exchange between glasses, assuring mutual death in case of chicanery.

A meteoroid that burns up as it passes through the Earth's atmosphere is known as a meteor.
A meteoroid that survives falling through the Earth's atmosphere and colliding with the Earth's surface is known as a meteorite.

The P-38, developed in 1942,[1] is a small can opener that was issued in the canned field rations of the United States Armed Forces from World War II to the 1980s. Originally designed for and distributed in the K-ration, it was later included in the C-ration. As of 2017, it is still in production and sold on a worldwide market.

Produced in salivary glands, saliva is 98% water, but it contains many important substances, including electrolytes, mucus, antibacterial compounds and various enzymes. The digestive functions of saliva include moistening food, and helping to create a food bolus, so it can be swallowed easily.

The 'gunk' underneath fingernails is most commonly the keratin debris from the underside of the nail, as well as skin cells from the nail bed.
What else can be living under there? Dirt, lint, and personal care products are also common culprits.

Cibophobia, or fear of food, is a relatively complicated phobia that can rapidly spiral into an obsession. People with this phobia are sometimes mistakenly thought to suffer from anorexia, a dangerous eating disorder. The main difference is that those with anorexia fear the effects of food on body image, while those with cibophobia are actually afraid of the food itself.

Once, there were no chickens. Instead, there were just their wild ancestors – jungle fowl. The untamed descendants of these birds still live in the bamboo forests of what are now India and South-East Asia.

Human life expectancy has increased more in the past 50 years than in the last 200,000 years.

Barcodes eliminate the possibility of human error. The occurrence of errors for manually entered data is significantly higher than that of barcodes. A barcode scan is fast and reliable, and takes infinitely less time than entering data by hand.

The basic requirements for consideration for recognition as a Country by the United Nations are: A flag, a postal service, currency, and a constitution.