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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 first execution by guillotine was made

On the 25th April, 1792, Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person to be executed using the guillotine.

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