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The Nature of Tears, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Is There a Body Fluid That Doesn't Provoke Disgust?

Tears are the only fluid secreted by the body that doesn't usually provoke a disgust reaction in others. The idea of getting somebody else's urine or feses, blood, sweat, spit, mucus, et cetera, any of that, would find all of these options disgusting. But tears are meant to be visually seen and one way to hide them is you do your crying in the rain like an everly brother's song. And i don't know of any empirical research to back up this observation. It might exist, but it does ring true to me."

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