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Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method

Stuff You Should Know

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The Myth of Spontaneous Generation

Exploring the historical belief in spontaneous generation and how it was debunked through scientific inquiry, touching on figures like Antoine von Leeuwenhoek and competing theories of the time.

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