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TIL that a Japanese University has granted the first ever Masters Degree in Ninja Studies.

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ADM54 TIL: in 1898, Jim White saw bats flying into a tiny hole in the ground, so he crawled down in. The hole led to a cave so big that as he explored it's depths his lantern would burn out and he had to find his way back in pitch blackness by memory. It is now the national park known as Carlsbad Caverns.
X0b8 TIL That the Quaker Oats company financed the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film as a product tie-in for their Wonka-brand candy
ZOVv TIL: Mexico has succeeded in eliminating trachoma, a disease which is the leading cause of blindness worldwide.
OGY96 TIL that in 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; a photograph of Martin Bormann, head of the Nazi Chancellery was used as the image of Albert Minoletta (the golden ticket counterfeitter).
JAw8 TIL A young Bill Nye worked in a local comedy show in Seattle called “Almost Live!” During one episode the show’s host said “jiggawatts” when he meant say “giggawatts.” When Bill jumped in to correct him the host snapped back, “Who do you think you are, Bill Nye the Science Guy?” The name stuck.