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Monday, 6 April 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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Titan
Titan orbits Saturn every 15 days and 22 hours. Rotation around its axis is synchronized with the cycle period.
It travels around the planet at an average speed of 5.57 km/s, approaching it at its periapsis for a distance of 1,186,680 km and distancing at apoapsis for a distance of 1,257,060 km.
Silver
Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag, belonging to the group of transition metals (gold, platinum) in the periodic table.
The Latin name for silver is argentum.
Moon
The average time between new moons is 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 3 seconds. We call this period the synodic month.
It is longer than the sidereal month because in the process of illuminating the moon's disk, we must take into account the movement of the Moon itself, as well as the Earth and the Sun.
Moon
The Moon has a residual atmosphere whose pressure is 3×10-15 bar.
Its entire atmosphere weighs only 10 tons.
Enceladus
Enceladus was discovered by William Herschel on August 28, 1789.
Cosmos
Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.
This gas giant is made up of 90 percent hydrogen and about 10 helium. The diameter of Jupiter is 139 ...
Aurora
Auroras are not only present on our planet.
They were observed on all the giant planets in the solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia is considered a disease of psychological origin.
The sufferer is usually found to have malnutrition of various degrees, with secondary hormonal and metabolic changes and dysfunction.
lava
During a volcanic eruption, several hundred cubic meters of lava are usually ejected.
These volumes can vary, sometimes being very large, such as during the eruption of the Laki rift vol ...
Brain
There are approximately 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
Most neurons are found in the cerebellum, ranging from 55 to 70 billion. The cerebral cortex, or what makes us intelligent beings, is made up of 14 to 16 billion neurons.