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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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AIDS was described for the first time by Dr. Michael Gottlieb

On the 5th June, 1981, the disease we now know as AIDS was first described in a medical newsletter.

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