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TIL the bubbles in champagne form tight lines rising to the top & most other carbonated beverages don't. Champagne contains surfactant molecules that keep the bubbles from leaving a wake as they move, preventing them from acting like the connected simultaneously-rising bubbles in other drinks.

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