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If I would go into my vegetable garden and scoop up a tablespoon of soil, inspected it millimeter by millimeter under a 40x-100x microscope: which and how many visible-sized organisms (insects, arthropods, etc.) would I be able to find?

by /u/Straight_Chip in /r/askscience

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