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the body's saltwater press release announcing what your mouth won't.
means A drop of clear salty liquid secreted by the eye, shed in crying or to keep the eye moist — or, said another way, to rip something apart by force.
from The two meanings are two different words wearing the same spelling. The eye-drop "tear" comes from Old English 'tēar', related to Old Norse 'tār' and a wide Indo-European family that also gave Latin 'lacrima' and Greek 'dákry'. The rip-it-apart "tear" comes from Old English 'teran', a cousin of German 'zerren' (to tug) and rooted in a sense of pulling and plucking apart. English just happens to spell both the same, so the eye and the gesture of ripping share a page by accident — though there's a quiet poetry in it.
- three types
- basal, reflex, and emotional all differ chemically
- stress chemistry
- emotional tears flush out stress hormones
- blink fuel
- basal tears coat your eyes constantly
- onion defense
- reflex tears wash away irritating chemicals
- human signature
- only humans cry from emotion
niagara falls — produces 750,000 gallons of water per second flowing over its edge
victoria falls — creates a mist visible 50km away, called 'the smoke that thunders' by locals in zambia-zimbabwe
angel falls venezuela — world's highest uninterrupted waterfall at 979 meters, creates tears of mist in the rainforest