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The first microscope discovery was “dust.” Which is why science and cleaning have beef.

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The first microscope observations are credited to Hooke and Leeuwenhoek, who saw cells and microorganisms. Leeuwenhoek's discoveries in the 1670s included tiny living creatures, not dust.

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