Blinking is an essential function. It keeps your eyes healthy, providing lubricating fluid and protection from foreign objects.
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Blinking is an essential function. It keeps your eyes healthy, providing lubricating fluid and protection from foreign objects.
The tongue teeth, epiglottis and esophagus are all part of swallowing, and there are three distinct stages to swallowing. This animation shows you how it works.
You may never have thought about it (unless your child asks), but boogers are sticky for a perfectly logical scientific reason.
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