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TIL that the said exorcism case which inspired the 1970s novel and movie 'The Exorcist' was supposedly performed on an 14 yeard-old boy in St. Louis in 1949. According to some reports, he passed away in 2020 and worked as an NASA engineer until 2001, contributing to the Apollo Program.

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