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Popsicles were invented by an eleven-year-old boy.

Why it is true

In nineteen oh five, Frank Epperson accidentally left a mixture of soda powder and water with a wooden stick on the porch during a freezing night, creating the first ice pop.

Source: Accidental Inventions

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