- Unless they are tracking something, your eyes are unable to move smoothly
- People with blue eyes share an ancestor with everybody else in the world that has blue eyes
- Brown eyes are actually blue underneath the pigment. In fact, people with brown eyes can have laser surgery to turn their eyes blue
- Schizophrenia can be diagnosed with a simple eye test 98.3% of the time
- Wearing glasses actually means images are flipped upside down, however the brain corrects them so you can see everything the right way up
- The average person will blink 17 times per minute. This totals around 14,280 blinks per day, which is around 5.2 million blinks per year!
- 2% of women actually have an extra retinal cone, as a result of a rare genetic mutation. This allows them to see around 100 million colours.
- Looking for visual cues in others is a trait that only dogs and humans have. Dogs are the only animal to do this while interacting with people.
- 20/20 vision just means normal vision. The best vision is actually 20/16, however the best human vision ever recorded was 20/8.
- You can't cry in space as there is no gravity to allow the tears to fall. Instead, the tears just collect in little balls that can hurt your eyes.
- The eye is made up of over 2 million working parts
- Doctors haven't yet managed to transplant an eyeball as the optic nerve is too sensitive.
- Both of your eyes have a blind spot at the back of the retina but you don't notice it as each eye works to fill in the other's blind spot.
- You'll probably need reading glasses as you get older. This is because the lens in your eye loses its ability to focus as you age.
- Eyes heal very quickly and can repair the damage caused by a scratch in around 48 hours.
- Newborn babies can't cry. A baby doesn't actually start developing tears until between four and 13 weeks.
- Sharks have very similar corneas to humans' eyes, which means they have often been used as replacements when humans are undergoing eye surgery.
- We can only see 1/6th of our eyes
- Sometimes people who are diagnosed with having no lens in their eyes - a condition called aphakia - can see the Ultra Violet light spectrum.
- There are colours that are too complex for the human eye to see, these are called impossible colours.
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