stackyFACTSRobert Hooke sliced incredibly thin layers of cork and shoved them under early microscopes to sketch their internal structures. He saw tiny hollow compartments and decided they strongly resembled the bleak, empty sleeping quarters of devout monks. He successfully cursed all future biology students to use a term derived from austere religious architecture.
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