The lacrimal punctum is a small hole in your eyelids, that drains your tears to your nose. It's the reason why you get a runny nose after crying.

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Email has been around longer than the World Wide Web. The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971, a good 20 years before Tim Berners-Lee introduced the web in 1991.

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99 percent of precious metal can be found in the Earth's core. Enough to cover the entire surface of the Earth with 45.7 cm of gold.

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🥔🍅 There is a plant called "pomidofel" - it is a hybrid of potato and tomato.

Its fruits are tomatoes, and the tubers are potato-like.

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Elephants are so empathetic that during air transport, crates are filled with tiny chicks, because the elephant won't move a muscle, afraid of stepping on them.

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Frogs can't vomit. Instead, they eject their entire stomach out of their mouths and empty it using their hands.

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50% of office workers quickly gain excess weight due to stress.

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Cows don't have upper front teeth, instead they have dental padding, which helps them hold on to more grass while grazing

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🐳 Blue whales can eat up to 500 kg of krill in one gulp, which is half a million calories. An adult whale can consume up to 40 million calories per day.

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One of the largest earthquakes on record struck the southern coast of Chile, killing about 5,700 people and creating seismic sea waves that caused death and destruction in distant Pacific coastal areas, notably Japan and Hawaii.

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💥 After shooting the "PEPSI" commercial, Michael Jackson received a $1.5 million compensation for second-degree facial burns due to a fireworks explosion.

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Colombia has the most bird species in the world, with over 1,900 species. 🦜🦅🌳

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Cataplexy is a rare sleep disorder that causes sufferers to fall asleep whenever they laugh

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Ants don't have lungs. They breathe through tiny holes along the sides of their bodies called spiracles. These connect to a network of tubes (tracheae) that deliver oxygen directly to their tissues.

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Some wineries age their wine underwater, usually in the sea.

It's called "underwater wine."

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Kuwait has no permanent rivers or lakes, and the country relies on water desalination as a primary source of fresh water for domestic purposes and drinking. Currently, Kuwait has over six desalination plants in operation, and it was the world’s first country to use desalination for supplying water for large-scale domestic use.

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