Your eyes are amazing! Here are some fascinating facts about them, and some fun puzzles below!
- Your eyes focus on 50 different objects every second.
- The only organ more complex than the eye is the brain.
- Your eyes can distinguish approximately 10 million different colors.
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- Ommatophobia is a fear of the eyes.
- 80 percent of all learning comes through the eyes.
- Your eyes can detect a candle flame 1.7 miles away.
- Your iris (the colored part of your eye) has 256 unique characteristics; your fingerprint has just 40.
- Heterochromia is the medical term for having two different colored eyes.
- Only 1/6 of your eyeball is visible.
- Your eyes are comprised of rods and cones. Rods allow you to see shapes, while cones are responsible for detecting and deciphering colors.
- The average person blinks 12 times a minute (bet you just blinked!).
- The shark cornea is nearly identical to the human cornea, and has even been used in human eye surgery!
- Your eye is the fastest contracting muscle in the body, contracting in less than 1/100th of a second.
- The optic nerve contains more than one million nerve cells.
(source: versanthealth.com)
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