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TIL That Jack Parsons, one of the minds behind rocket engine, was a Thelemite occultist- A. Crowley's cult- practiced sex magic, had romance with Sara N. Hollister, which later with his friend L. R. Hubbard starts Scientology, and the two ruin his reputation. He died in explotion in his house at 37

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