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    Champagne was invented by a monk! Dom Perignon added sugar and yeast to wine in Champagne, France, in 1688.

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London’s underground Metropolitan Railway was opened

On the 10th January, 1863, the first underground railway to use electric trains, The Metropolitan Railway, opened in London.

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