interesting facts about crying

• When the first tear you cry, comes from your left eye, it's because of something painful, but if it comes from your right eye, it's from something happy.

• Society has always compared rain to falling tears, which has lead to many believing the shape of raindrops to be in similar shape. In fact,they are not at all. When a raindrop begins to fall it starts in nearly a perfect circle,and then begins to change in shape.

• There are three layers to the tear film coating the eye that creates tears- the liquid layer (oil), the aqueous layer (water), and the mucous layer (mucin).

• Babies cry 1 to 3 hours each day.

• Crying is a way to communicate needs and elicit attention from others, at least in early life, and may be a means of releasing emotional tension.

• According to research from the 1980s, psychogenic tears differ in composition from other tears, and it's theorized that crying may be a way to get rid the body from stress.

• A good cry can make you fell better.

• Parents typically overestimate, but babies do cry for about 1 to 3 hours a day.

• There are actually three kinds of tears- basal tears, which clean and lubricate your eyes; reflex tears, which drain when your eyes are irritated by things like onions or pollen; and emotional tears, the one we all know the best,