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Thursday, 5 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
What distinguishes fungi from animals is the presence of cell walls and vacuoles, which in turn makes them closer to plants.
Fungi do not perform photosynthesis, the cell walls of most fungi contain chitin, which does not occ ...
Brain
There are no nerve receptors in the brain that register pain, so it does not feel it.
Milky Way
Its diameter is from 100 to 120 thousand light years.
It is therefore a relatively large galaxy, although some cosmic giants may dwarf it in size. IC 1101 is about 20 times larger than the Milky Way, with a diameter of 2 million light-years.
Mushrooms
A species of fungus capable of breaking down and digesting polyurethane has been discovered in the Amazon.
The species is called Pestalotiopsis microspora. Its ability to degrade polyurethane was discovered ...
Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia is the most common among young people and teenagers.
It is most common in girls and young women, although recently the disorder has been increasingly obs ...
Deimos
Deimos is suspected to be a stray asteroid that was directed towards Mars by Jupiter's gravitational field.
Ganymede
Ganymede orbits Jupiter at a distance of 1.070.400 kilometers. The complete orbit takes 7 days and 3 hours.
Aurora
The particles that make up the solar wind, upon contact with the Earth's magnetic field, spiral along the lines of this field and collide near the magnetic poles with molecules of nitrogen and oxygen, etc.
They arouse them, and these, returning to the ground state, radiate energy in the form of light quanta.
Snow
There are various snow events of varying duration and intensity, such as snow flurries, snow showers, snow squalls, blowing snow, and blizzards.
Snow flurries are minor snowfalls that cause light dusting or no snow accumulation.During snow showe ...
Graphene
Carbon is capable of creating many allotropes due to its valence.
In nature, it occurs in large quantities in basically only three allotropic varieties: graphite, dia ...