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TIL about Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, an Dutch Button salesman who in 17th Century managed to build an eyeglass 10 times more powerful than the best Microscope of the day and discovered millions of bacteria present in single drop of water He is sometimes knows as father of Microbiology

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