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TIL: The single largest infiltration of the U.S. government ever was done by The Church of Scientology

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8eloP TIL the peace symbol was designed by Gerald Holtom in 1958 and is a super-imposition of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D", taken to stand for "nuclear disarmament".
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