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TIL NASA used IQ tests for determining which applicants will ultimately become astronauts

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7rvbr TIL: When the Soviets attempted to poison the president of Afganistan in 1979, he unwittingly survived the assassination by drinking Coca Cola, as the acidic drink diluted the poison
R8d9 TIL that American Express does not allow it’s cardholders to buy online porn, citing the number of charge disputes by it’s members (safe for work link)
5VrRp TIL that perhaps counterintuitively, defibrillators do not shock the heart to get it to beat normally- the shock actually stops the heart from beating altogether. This allows the natural automatic pacemaker of the heart to operate again and restore the heart's rhythm back to normal.
oByZR TIL that the Pentagon has a full-blown battle plan against zombies, for in-house training. In this document, zombies are categorized, from "evil, magic" zombies to "vegetarian" zombies which groan "graaaains" instead of the usual "braaaains".
X0XlX TIL that the least densely populated county in the US east of the Mississippi River is Hamilton County, NY with 3 people/sq mi (1.2/km2).