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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 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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