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TIL Operation Freakout was a Church of Scientology covert plan intended to have the author Paulette Cooper imprisoned or committed to a psychiatric hospital, as revenge for her highly critical book, The Scandal of Scientology.

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ELZp TIL that Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, learned to fly before he learned to drive.
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