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the body's only fluid that critics watch fall yet politely pretend not to
means the salty fluid your eyes produce, whether from crying, irritation, or chopping onions.
from From Old English 'tear' (earlier 'teagor'), a Germanic word with deep roots — cousins survive in Dutch 'traan' and German 'Zähre.' Linguists trace it back to a Proto-Indo-European source also thought to lie behind Latin 'lacrima' and Greek 'dakru,' suggesting humans have been naming the things that fall from their eyes for a very, very long time.
- three types
- basal, reflex, and the dramatic emotional kind
- chemical mood
- emotional tears contain stress hormones being flushed out
- onion defense
- reflex tears fight off sulfur gas attacks
- barely salty
- tears are saltier than blood plasma
- human signature
- no other animal cries from emotion
niagara falls — 750,000 gallons of water flow over the falls per second, often described as nature's tears
cry of bran — irish legend where bran wept so heavily his tears formed lough neagh, largest freshwater lake in the british isles
tear gas — cs gas used by police worldwide since the 1920s, causes uncontrollable tearing and eye irritation