Where does the word cell come from?

The answer

Cork is the bark of the cork oak, and harvesting it doesn't cut the tree down, because only the bark is stripped. In 1665 Robert Hooke looked at a slice of cork under a microscope, saw it was made of tiny box-like compartments, and called them cells. His book Micrographia, published in January 1665, is where the biological word cell comes from. That was the fun fact in a made-up case from Matter of Record Files, in which Tapperino, a very small cork, had something knocking inside him at three in the morning. It was Tung Tung Tung Sahur, who chopped a door in his belly and built a house inside.