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Sunday, 16 November 2025
13 facts about tears
13 facts about tears
Multipurpose liquid
Associated with emotions, tears are a product of lacrimal glands, found in the eyes of most terrestrial vertebrates. Although their primary function i ...

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Tears
Tears are distributed evenly by blinking.
Mushrooms
Fungi (Fungi) form next to animals (Animalia) and plants (Plantae) a distinct, great realm of eukaryotic living organisms.
They are found in all climatic zones, mainly on land, but also in waters, both salty and fresh. The ...
Milky Way
Our galaxy is surrounded by a spherical halo that extends as much as 200.000 light-years from its center.
The halo consists of old stars and globular clusters, and 90 percent of the material it contains is located within a radius of 100.000 light years from the center of the Milky Way.
Graphene
Scientific research has shown that graphene destroys cancer cells.
By adhering to cancer cells, it creates a thin layer around them, which cuts off oxygen and nutrients. This ultimately leads to the death of cancer cells.
Cosmos
After the first period of rapid expansion, the universe began to cool.
As the temperature dropped, subatomic particles and then atoms separated. The universe was filled wi ...
Snow
The 1972 snow blizzard in Iran killed 4000 people.
It was the deadliest blizzard in history. At the time, 7.9 meters of snow fell, completely covering ...
Deimos
Deimos was discovered by American astronomer Asaph Hall on August 12, 1877, through a telescope at the US Naval Observatory.
It was not discovered accidentally, the astronomer conducted observations precisely to find the planet's natural satellites.
Cosmos
The Sun has a diameter of 1.392.684 kilometers.
It is about 109 times larger than the Earth and its mass is approximately 333.000 Earth masses. The Sun accounts for about 99.86 percent of the mass of the solar system.
Fungi
The science of mushrooms is mycology.
Mycologists have developed several systems of classifying fungi.A less official classification group ...
Aurora
In the language of the Sámi people (the native inhabitants of Lapland), the name of the aurora "guovssahasah" means "the sun shining in the sky in the morning or evening".
The Sámi people claimed that creating a song about the aurora borealis is dangerous and threatens to draw polar light on themselves, which bode inevitable death.