Interesting Facts About Eyes


Interesting Facts About Eyes:

  1. Your eyes focus on 50 different objects every second.
  2. The only organ more complex than the eye is the brain.
  3. Your eyes can distinguish approximately 10 million different colors.
  4. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  5. Ommatophobia is a fear of the eyes.
  6. 80 percent of all learning comes through the eyes.
  7. Your eyes can detect a candle flame 1.7 miles away.
  8. Your iris (the colored part of your eye) has 256 unique characteristics; your fingerprint has just 40.
  9. Heterochromia is the medical term for having two different colored eyes.
  10. Only 1/6 of your eyeball is visible.
  11. Your eyes are comprised of rods and cones. Rods allow you to see shapes, while cones are responsible for detecting and deciphering colors.
  12. The average person blinks 12 times a minute (bet you just blinked!).
  13. Blind people can see their dreams as long as they weren’t born blind.
  14. 80% of our memories are determined by what we see. 
  15. The shark cornea is nearly identical to the human cornea, and has even been used in human eye surgery!
  16. Your eye is the fastest contracting muscle in the body, contracting in less than 1/100th of a second.
  17. The optic nerve contains more than one million nerve cells.
  18. The night vision of tigers is six times better than that of humans.
  19. Although our nose and ears keep growing throughout our lives, our eyes remain the same size from birth. 
  20. All babies are colour blind at birth. 
  21. Colour blindness is more common in males. 
  22. A newborn baby will cry, but not produce any tears. Babies do not produce tears until they are around six weeks old. 
  23. Newborn babies can see objects about 8-15 inches away most clearly.
  24. The older we get, the less tears we produce. 
  25. Your eyelashes keep dirt out of your eyes. 
  26. We have all have unseen, harmless microscopic creatures living in our eyelashes. 
  27. Your eyebrows prevent sweat dripping into your eyes. 
  28. The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.
  29. Our eyes close automatically to protect us from perceived dangers.

DID YOU KNOW?

  • The world’s most common eye color is brown.

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