stackyFACTSIgnorance is bliss until you look at a drop of pond water. When the first microscopes were developed, scientists were utterly horrified to discover thousands of tiny, squiggly creatures living in everything. It essentially ruined the concept of drinking water for an entire generation of scholars.
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