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Friday, 8 May 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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Silver
Silver is the raw material for the production of coins.
Coins were produced from it as early as the 7th century BC. They were made in an ancient country called Lydia, from an alloy of silver and gold called electrum.
Mushrooms
Fungal reproduction is complex, reflecting differences in lifestyle and genetic composition.
It is estimated that a third of all fungi reproduce using more than one method of reproduction. Most ...
Silver
Later, pure silver coins were produced.
The British pound was initially worth 1 pound of 925 silver jewelry.
Milky Way
In addition to the stellar halo, our galaxy is also surrounded by a halo made of hot gas, which is much more extensive than the stellar halo.
Its temperature is from 1 million to 2.5 million degrees Celsius and it extends for hundreds of thou ...
Phobos
Phobos rises on the western side of the Martian sky and traverses it for 4 hours and 15 minutes before setting in the east.
Liver
It converts glucose to glycogen, which is released between meals.
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 ...
Titan
Rains of liquid organic compounds, mainly methane, fall to the surface of the moon from clouds consisting of methane and ethane.
Typically, cloud cover does not exceed 1% of the moon's surface, but periodically it can increase up ...
Brain
Thanks to the word patterns stored in memory, a person is able to read the text in which the letters have been mixed.
It is enough for the first and last letters of a word to be in the correct place.
Fungi
There are fungi that hunt animals.
An example of such a mushroom is the oyster mushroom. If it lacks protein, it hunts for nematodes by ...