stackyFACTSThe massive glass tanks you currently use to watch sad goldfish swim in circles were absolutely never meant for fish. The 'Wardian case' was originally engineered purely to forcefully protect delicate, imported botanical ferns from the aggressively toxic, soot-filled air of highly polluted 19th-century cities.
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