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TIL: I have been using nasal spray wrongly all these years

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4yKo TIL a man named Ratanlal Maloo, created an artificial sanctuary for the migratory Demoiselle Cranes in Rajasthan, India by feeding them every year over a span of 40 years. Their numbers increased from 80, 40 years ago, to 15000 in 2011.
69rAX TIL in 2023 a man called the cage supervisor at the Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas posing as the hotel's co-owner & convinced them to delivery 4 installments of cash totaling $1.17m to multiple off-site locations by telling them the fire department needed money. He received a suspended sentence.
16BlW TIL that although the Superfight between Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano was simulated (with ketchup being used as fake blood), Ali nonetheless felt legitimately hurt, from some of the dramatised punches that Marciano threw at him.
X0eWj TIL that Catherine Schell - the actress who played Maya in "Space: 1999" (1975-77) - is a great-niece of King Louis XIV of France, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, 7th Prime-Minister of France, and Franz I & II & III, 50th Holy Roman Emperor and 8th Grand-Duke of Tuscany and former Duke of Lorraine.
dA7Z TIL scientists in Korea last year developed a Lithium-Ion battery that charges 120x faster than normal, and may lead to electric car batteries that charge in less than a minute.