Interesting Facts about Eyes: "
The study of the iris of the eye is called iridology.
Eyes are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain.
The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since its cornea is similar to a human cornea.
Eyes are composed of more than two million working parts.
Eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.
Research has indicated that a tie that is on too tight cam increase the risk of glaucoma in men.
Eyes under the right conditions, can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.
Eyes contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge.
The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
A human eyeball weighs an ounce
Eyes utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour.
Eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body.
The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.
Eyes in a normal life-span, will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you.
The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.
The adult eyeball measures about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Of its total surface area only one-sixth is exposed — the front portion.
All babies are colour blind when they are born.
Babies’ eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.
The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest. Your eyelids need rest, the external muscles of your eyes need rest, the lubrication of your eyes requires replenishment, but your eyes themselves “never” need rest. But please rest them!
People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
Men are able to read fine print better than women can.
Eyes are your most precious sense… care for them properly!
The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand.
The average person blinks about 12 times a minute.
Women eyes blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your eyes blinks over 10,000,000 times a year!
Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs. That keeps them clean and moist. Also, if something is about to hit our eye, we will blink automatically.
Our body has some natural protection for our eyes. Our eyelashes help to keep dirt out of our eyes. Our eyebrows are made to keep sweat from running into our eyes.
If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight.
In the United States, approximately 25,000 eye injuries occur that result in the person becoming totally blind.