Two icons created on Android

What?
If you're installing an app and it creates two icons:

Why?
I don't think I'll forget this one but I was stumped for a bit until I found it on the a forum: Stack Overflow: Android App Development.

How?
Basically don't have the following declared more than once in the AndroidManifest.xml
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<intent-filter>
     <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
     <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
  1.  <intent-filter> 
  2.       <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> 
  3.       <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> 
  4.  </intent-filter> 

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