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Thursday, 11 December 2025
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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Tears
Babies can cry for up to three hours a day.
It is their way of communicating their needs, such as hunger, tiredness, or discomfort.
Milky Way
According to recent research, there may be as many as 400 billion stars in the Milky Way.
The number of stars was originally estimated at around 100 million, but recent measurements suggest that this number may be up to four times greater.
Graphene
Graphene can be used in the biomedical field for diagnostic purposes.
It shows therapeutic potential as a drug carrier. It can also be used in tissue engineering because ...
Nicotine
Until the end of the 20th century, it was believed that nicotine did not lead to the development of cancer.
But already in the first decade of the 21st century, this view was questioned and a debate began among scientists about its carcinogenic properties.
Ganymede
The moon's mantle is surrounded by layers of ice and salty liquid water.
These layers alternate. The surface of the moon consists of hard ice several kilometers thick.
Mushrooms
Multicellular organisms are the most numerous group among fungi, but there are also single-celled fungi, like yeast.
A distinctive feature of fungi is the cell walls built of chitin. The fungus cell can be mononuclear ...
Moon
The Moon's atmosphere consists of 25 percent helium, 25 percent neon, 23percent hydrogen, 20 percent argon and residual amounts of methane, ammonia and carbon dioxide.
Tears
An excessive amount of tears often called pathological crying or laughing, may be an indication of a brain disease or Alzheimer’s disease.
Ganymede
The Moon is the only one in the Solar System that has a dipole magnetic field capable of creating a magnetosphere.
NASA
In July 1975, NASA launched a joint mission with the Soviet Union, called the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
The mission was a symbol of détente during the Cold War. Moreover, it was the last crewed U.S. spaceflight in a space capsule until 2020.