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James Bond 007
  • James Bond Casino Royale is actually based on Ian Flemming’s first Bond novel
  • There have been seven American Bond Girls, four English , three French, two Swedish and one each from Japan, Malaysia, Switzerland , Italy, and Poland
  • Bond was born in Germany
  • Roger Moore was the oldest Bond actor at 58
  • The Bond franchise has raked in almost $4 billion dollars
  • Sean Connery’s wife doubled for actress Mie Hama in a water-dive scene for You Only Live Twice

Japan
  • 10% of all the fish caught in the world are sold in Japan
  • An average Japanese eats her/his own body weight in seafood a year

jellyfish
  • A jellyfish is 95 percent water, and humans around 70%
  • Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks
  • The world’s largest jellyfish has tentacles reaching half a football field
  • The upside-down jellyfish is actually more like a like a plant. In the Tentacle region, there is something called zooanthalle which allows them to make food from light energy
  • Jellyfish squirt water jets to propel themselves forward. They do not drift or swim
  • Jellyfish is able to reproduce both sexually and asexually during different parts of their life cycles

jiffy
  • A “jiffy” is actually a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second

Joan of Arc
  • Joan of Arc was actually burned alive as a witch in 1431, and only considered a saint in the 20th century. (Them folks must be pissed to hear that)

Jordan, Michael
  • Michael Jordan has more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
  • Michael Jordan was initially reknown for his baseball skills
  • At first, Jordan failed to make the varsity basketball team at his Wilmington’s Laney High school
  • Michael grew 4 inches (11 cm) in 1 year to make the varsity squad
  • Michael Jordan retired from basketball twice
  • Jordan scored 32,292 in his basketball career
  • He appeared in the 2004 movie Supersize Me
  • He has a tattoo of the Greek letter ‘Omega’ over his heart, representing Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated, of which he is a member

Judaism
  • Every seventh year, a Jewish agricultural law prompts fervent Zionists to symbolically “sell” their land to a non-Jew for the year

Jules Verne
  • A manuscript by Jules Verne predicted camera phones as far back as 1874