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TIL Bear Grylls has launched a survival academy. There are 3-day or 6-day courses currently offered in Scotland and will be expanding to the US in 2013.

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b9QMZ TIL Moths don't like light at all! They use moonlight to navigate by night. By keeping the moon at a constant angle, they could ensure they traveled in a straight line. Unfortunately, they now confuse electric lights with the moon and try to navigate by them so they keep going around it, confused.
0Kl5 TIL: Under the US Copyright Office “supernatural beings” cannot hold copyrights so technically if they’re real, vampires or werewolves can’t get royalties for their original content.
W71AL TIL about the "High Five Interchange" in Dallas, the junction of I-635 and US 75. It's considered one of the "World's Strangest Roadways" because of its height (as high as a 12-story building), its 43 permanent bridges, and other unusual design and construction features.
OoDx7 TIL about the surviving 2nd century Roman novel A True Story written by Lucian of Samosata. It is regarded as one of the first ever works of science fiction ever written and it features explorers flying to the moon, first contact with aliens, an interstellar war and the discovery of a new continent.
X0jOQ TIL Bert Janssen from the Netherlands is the longest-living heart transplant recipient in the world since 1984. The operation was done by Egyptian-born transplant pioneer Magdi Yacoub, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1992 for his services to medicine.