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Why your tear taste salty

If you cry, and your tear flow right into your mouth, you'll notice that your tear actually taste salty. But why? didn't we put enough sugar in our diet? or why didn't our tear taste like our saliva? Our tear taste salty because it contain leusinenkefalin, adrenokortikotropik, prolactin, electrolyte and immunoglobulin A. All these ingredients cause our tear to taste salty. The main function of these ingredients is to keep our eyes stable.

The story of ultraman's family

How it all begin, the story of ultraman Ultraman Ultraman home planet is called Nebula M78. He was an expert at Space Academy and also a personnel of Space Garrison. He also has a family on that planet. His dad is a director of Space Security Board while his mom work as a teacher at Ultra School. Ultraman was chasing a monster called Bermular when he accidentally hit a Royal Japanese space ship. The pilot, Shin Hayata was almost killed in that accident. Ultraman felt guilty and give some of his "power" to Hayata and end up becoming "one" with him. Since then, when there is a monster trying to attack earth, Hayata will shift into ultraman using a device called Beta Capsule which he keep in his pocket most of the time. That's pretty much how the story begin. Not the best storyline ever but hey, ultraman was kinda popular back then and there was many kind of ultraman created to attract more viewers. Here's some of them. His dad Ultraman 8

Coast redwood, the giant tree

That's one huge tree These photos were taken in 1915-era, showing a bunch of lumberjacks with very huge trees in the background. Believe it or not, this is not Photoshoped, the trees that you see in these photos are known to be the tallest and the biggest tree on earth. The tree species is scientific known as Sequoia sempervirens , but regular non-scientist call it the giant redwood . In the 1800, these trees was harvested because of it expensive price due to it durability and workability. There is a man in this picture

How it look like if there is no ice at the South Pole

Ever wonder how it look like if there is no ice at the South Pole? NASA was trying to figure out the answer but creating images of the South Pole, without the ice. The images was created by computer simulation. According to NASA, the thickness of ice in certain part of that area can reach up to 3 km.

Magical ice cave in Russia

There is a "magical" cave located in Kamchatka peninsula of Russia. The cave was a result of hot water spring that flow below the glacial ice fields. In recent years, the roof of the cave has become so thin that sun light can now penetrate through it which make the view inside of the cave a lot more beautiful.

Extremely colourful mountain in China

These beautiful landscape are located in China. The mountain is known as Danxia mountain. This geological phenomena started around 24 million years ago during the Cretaceous period.

Amazing pictures created using only Microsoft Paint

Everybody know it can be very painful to draw anything using Microsoft Paint. I can't even draw stick people properly using this program. But an old man named Hal Lasko, who's deaf and blind in one eye manage to do the impossible. He spent up to 10 hour a day to create these masterpieces.

Medical and surgery equipment from ancient time

The medical equipment they use in ancient time might look scary. For peoples like us, who live in today world where technology is a lot more advance, we might think that the equipments they use is ridiculous. However, keep in mind that technology was not so advance back then. These equipments are considered "high tech" at that time. 1. Tool for taking out bullets from human body in 1500 Used to take out bullets from human body 2. Tobacco Enema , to insert smoke into a person through his/her ass. They believe doing this will help the patients to breath after s/he fall unconscious because of drowning. 3. Manual trepanation skull used to drill hole on human head for head surgery in 1800 4. Surgery knife in 1770 5. Backward scissors for amputation in 1550 6. Screw gag to force patients to open their mouth. Used in 1880-1910 7. Artificial leech to treat eye and ear illness in 1840.

Canned fresh air for sale in China!

In China, you can now buy a can of fresh air for only 80 cents per can. A 44-year-old entrepreneur, Chen Guangbiao launched this product as part of his effort to fight pollution. The objective is to spread awareness about the pollution. He said "I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth, don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment"

Cup noodles museum in Yokohama

The museum we're talking about This might seem odd but after being on the internet for a while, we all know how the Japanese peoples never fail at coming up with weird ideas. In Yokohama, Japan there is a museum for instant noodles. Here, you'll see a collection of instant noodles from different period of time. Optical illusion at the museum