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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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The anaesthetic, ether, was first used during surgery.

On the 30th March, 1842, Dr. Crawford W. Long administered the first surgical use of ether as an anaesthetic during a minor surgery.

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