Because silica gel is a desiccant and can absorb and hold water vapour from the surrounding air there are lots of ways it can be used to improve things around the house.
Sean Connery the first James Bond. This is a misnomer because another actor played Bond in a made for TV version of Casino Royale, (not to be confused with the dreadful David Niven comedyversion), which was the pilot for a proposed 007 TV series.
Sean Connery was cast as James Bond in Dr.No (1962) over many more famous and expensive actors as Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, Trevor Howard, Patrick McGoohan and Roger Moore, even though Ian Fleming was quoted saying He is not exactly what I envisioned as the fictional British agent.