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Thursday, 19 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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Large Magellanic Cloud
The mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud is estimated at 10 billion solar masses, which is about a hundred times less massive than the Milky Way.
Graphene
Polish science contributed to the discovery and revolutionization of graphene production methods.
The key date is 2011 when the Institute of Electronic Materials Technology together with the Faculty ...
Fungi
Mushrooms are some of the oldest inhabitants of Earth.
Recent evidence suggests that the first fungi evolved on Earth between 715 and 810 million years ago.
Anorexia Nervosa
The earliest medical descriptions of the disease are attributed to English physician Richard Morton in 1689.
However, it was not until the late 19th century that mental anorexia nervosa was widely accepted by ...
Phobos
The largest impact crater on the surface of Phobos is called Stickney, its diameter is up to 10 kilometers.
It was named after Asaph Hall’s wife, Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, a mathematician. A collision that formed Stickney crater could have shattered the moon.
NASA
The first living organism sent to space from the U.S. was a chimpanzee called Ham.
Ham, aboard the Mercury Redstone rocket, blasted off on January 31, 1961. “Ham the Astrochimp” was b ...
Snow
It is highly likely that no two snowflakes exist and have never existed exactly alike.
Snow crystals are almost perfectly symmetrical, although most are irregular in many respects. The ru ...
Mushrooms
Most fungi develop as hyphae, which are cylindrical, filamentous structures 2-10 µm in diameter and up to a few centimeters long.
The hyphae branch, merge, which leads to the formation of mycelium, which is an interconnected netwo ...
lava
Lava can take many different forms.
Common forms are aa, pahoehoe and pillow lava.
NASA
The first NASA crewed Space Program was Project Mercury.
Although it is not well-remembered, it was the foundation for all space missions.