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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 atom was first split by physicists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton

On the 14th April, 1932, physicists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton first split the nucleus of an atom using their nuclear particle accelerator.

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