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TIL the Popsicle was invented by an 11-year old boy after he inadvertently left a glass of soda water with stirring stick outside overnight in freezing weather. Later, during the Great Depression, he made the single pop into twins so hungry children could share a pop for the same price as a single.

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Rol TIL during the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, one Israeli tank commander single-handedly fought off an entire advancing Syrian tank battalion, taking advantage of the darkness and moving constantly to make the Syrians believe they were facing a full Israeli armored division while destroying 40 Syrian tanks.
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