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In 1989, a NY contractor decided to buy the contents of a storage container. He paid under $100 for what he would soon discover was the white Lotus Esprit submarine-car used in the James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me. The car was bought at auction by Elon Musk for $1 million.

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A tool shop owner paid $100 for a locked abandoned storage unit, only to find the Lotus Esprit submarine prop from The Spy Who Loved Me inside. He sold it to Elon Musk for $825,000.

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1. During the filming of 'The Spy Who Loved Me', production designer Ken Adam called up his old boss Stanley Kubrick for advice on how to light the inside of an enormous tanker ship, the villain's secret lair. Kubrick snuck in on a Sunday morning for four hours to set the lighting up himself.

2. A French man fell in love with someone he *thought* was a female Chinese opera singer, and had a decades-long affair that resulted in a child... only to discover that the whole time the singer had actually been (a) male and (b) a spy.

3. The opening scene of The Spy Who Loved Me—in which James Bond skies off a cliff and opens a Union Jack parachute—amazed even royalty. "I have never seen a reaction in the cinema as there was that night. You couldn't help it. You could not help but stand up. Even Prince Charles stood up."

4. Ian Fleming wrote Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever, From Russia, with Love, The Diamond Smugglers, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Thrilling Cities, You Only Live Twice, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, The Man with the Golden Gun, and Octopussy and the Living Daylights.

5. In 1959 Anaïs Nin's five volumes of Cities of the Interior was published. The five volumes include Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, and Seduction of the Minotaur.

6. Elon Musk purchased the amphibious Lotus Esprit prop car used in James Bond's "The Spy Who Loved Me" and plans to engineer it to actually be a dual-purpose car for use both on land and submerged underwater

7. Ian Fleming's James Bond Novel "The Spy Who Loved Me" is told from 1st person of a Canadian Women. The only thing in common with Movie is Bond, the Title, and the Henchmen 'Horror' (renamed Jaws for the movie)

8. In 2013, Elon Musk bought James Bond's Lotus Esprit from The Spy Who Loved Me in order to actually create such a dual-purpose car (underwater and on land).

9. The James Bond character 'Jaws' appears in two films. After he was a very popular villain in 'The Spy Who Loved Me', so many children wrote letters asking "Why can't Jaws be a goodie not a baddie", that in 'Moonraker' the character reforms and becomes Bond's ally.

10. The Lotus Esprit from the Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me —capable of transforming from car to submarine in the movie—was purchased for £616,000 at a London auction by Elon Musk, who plans to rebuild the vehicle and attempt to make the fictional dual-purpose car be an actual dual-purpose car.

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Tesla founder Elon Musk bought the submarine car from James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me" with plans to make it a reality

James Bond likes his coffee black and from an American coffee maker. In Ian Fleming's novel "From Russia With Love," the famous spy's favorite breakfast consisted of "very strong coffee...brewed in an American Chemex, of which he drank two large cups, black and without sugar." - source

Stephen Spielberg was approached to direct the James Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me" but the producers wanted to wait to see "how the fish picture turns out" - source

The real 'gentle giant', Richard Kiel who played Jaws in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, died in 2014 at the age of 74.

According to Thom Yorke of Radiohead, the sexiest song ever written is "Nobody Does It Better" by Carly Simon. She sang it as the theme for the James Bond film 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (1977). - source

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NSA employees have nearly every year been caught spying on their love interests. People now coin the phrase LOVEINT for these incidents

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The ski jump in The Spy Who Loved Me was the first ski jump of its kind and filmed in only one take.

The huge stage used to film The Spy Who Loved Me in 1976 is still in use today at Pinewood Studios, UK.

An undercover British police officer had a multi-year relationship and eventual marriage with an environmental activist on whom he was spying. When his identity was revealed and she divorced him, he sued the police department for £100,000 for "failing to protect him from falling in love."

In 1989, a man bought a storage container at auction for $100. When he opened it up, he found the James Bond submarine car from "The Spy Who Loved Me." He later sold the car for £550k (then $850k) to Elon Musk who plans to make it a fully functional all electric car-submarine.

Ana Margarita Martinez who succesfully sued Cuban Government for rape because she was married to a spy working for cuba and hence their love life was based on a deception.