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    The first drinking straws were used in ancient times by beer drinking Sumerians, to filter out the solid by-products from fermentation.

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The Courrieres mine disaster in France killed over 1000 people

On the 10th March, 1906, a huge dust explosion in a coal mine in Courrieres, France, killed 1,099 people.

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