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Friday, 27 February 2026
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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Fungi
Fungi have developed a high degree of metabolic versatility, which allows them to use a variety of organic substances for growth.
In some species, the pigment melanin may play a role in extracting energy from ionizing radiation such as gamma radiation.
Graphene
Graphene has the potential to replace silicon in many applications.
Graphene can be used to create microprocessors a thousand times more efficient than those we know to ...
Ganymede
Ganymede has a very thin atmosphere that is almost 100% of oxygen.
Cosmos
About 4.6 billion years ago, a cloud of gas and dust existed at the site of the Solar System.
According to one theory, the balance of this cloud was upset by the explosion of a nearby supernova. ...
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.
Cosmos
Each object in the sky is observed with a delay.
The farther away the celestial body is from the observer, the longer the light emitted or reflected ...
Fungi
Mycelium can communicate with trees and plants.
This communication involves a multidirectional flow of information (in the form of chemical compound ...
Earth
The largest part of the Earth's land is used for animal breeding (30 to 47 percent).
This is followed by wasteland and wilderness (24 to 31 percent), human forests (16 to 27 percent), arable farms (12 to 14 percent), and infrastructure (1 percent).
Earth
The largest tectonic plate is the Pacific one, covering an area of 103 million square kilometers.
Most of the plate is submerged under the ocean, the land area of the Pacific plate is only a part of ...
Deimos
The two largest craters of Deimos are approximately 3 kilometers in diameter: Swift and Voltaire.
They were named after two writers who claimed that Mars had two moons before this was proven.