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TIL that the popsicle was invented by an 11-year-old kid.

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nPkb TIL that during WWII, the British, learned of a German radio navigation system codenamed ‘Wotan’. Wotan, or Odin, was a one-eyed Norse god, whence they deduced that the system used one beam, and were able to develop countermeasures before the system was even deployed.
d5Kr TIL: During the Cold War, Eisenhower secretly deputized 9 people, mostly CEO’s and other corporate Big Wigs, to run the country in case of nuclear attack
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