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the unsung river that turns dry crackers into something your tongue can actually understand
means The clear, watery fluid your salivary glands secrete into your mouth to moisten food, begin digestion, and keep everything comfortably lubricated.
from Straight from Latin saliva, meaning spittle or slaver. The word's deeper roots are murky — etymologists aren't certain what older source it sprang from — but it flowed unchanged into the scientific and medical vocabulary of English, where it remains the polite, lab-coat cousin of the blunter, Germanic 'spit.'
Daily outputAround 1.5 liters made every single day
Lifetime totalEnough to fill two swimming pools
Taste keyDissolves food so taste buds can read it
Healing trickContains a compound that speeds wound repair
Mostly water99 percent water, 1 percent pure chemistry