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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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Astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered one of Jupiter’s moons, Dione

On the 21st March, 1684, astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovered a moon of Saturn which was later named Dione.

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