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Monday, 1 June 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
A mushroom called Entoloma hochstetteri is a mushroom with a blue, fruiting body.
His image appears on the back of the 2002 New Zealand $50 banknote.
Graphene
Graphene has unique “heating” properties.
This property is used in an innovative method of pain treatment (local heating of tissues to a tempe ...
NASA
In 1998, NASA, in collaboration with Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), CSA (Canada), and JAXA (Japan), launched the first component of the International Space Station (ISS).
The ISS program evolved from the 1980s Space Station Freedom program. The first long-term residents ...
Tears
An excessive amount of tears often called pathological crying or laughing, may be an indication of a brain disease or Alzheimer’s disease.
NASA
Any astronaut interested in working for NASA has to complete 1 000 hours of flying time.
Moon
The moon was formed about 4527 billion years ago, or about 30 to 50 million years after the formation of the solar system.
Cosmos
It is difficult to estimate the approximate number of stars in space.
According to the simples calculation taking into account the number of galaxies and the average numb ...
Cosmos
The Solar System is located in the Milky Way.
Our galaxy ranks rather average, its diameter is 100 to 120 thousand light years. Perhaps a unique f ...
Cosmos
The largest canyon both on Mars and in the entire Solar System is Valles Marineris, which stretches 400 kilometers, is 200 kilometers wide, and 10 kilometers deep.
The canyon is located just below the Martian equator.
Tears
Insincere or inauthentic regret is called “crocodile tears.”
The term derived from a belief that crocodiles cry to lure and devour their prey. It is untrue, howe ...