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TIL that the Pop-It bubble popper was originally invented in 1975 by Theo and Ora Coster of Theora Concepts: a married Israeli couple who had invented many games including Guess Who? and Zingo!. Incidentally, Theo was a former classmate of Anne Frank.

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